New lighting technology

[melomunki]

Not strikingly new but pretty new. LED lighting and Balloon lighting. Some cool stuff.

They both are more eco-friendly, cheaper, and a lot easier to handle. LED lighting can change colors by itself...no gels...interesting. Has anyone heard about these or worked with them yet?

www.ledsmagazine.com/news/3/10/28
www.americainfra.com/article/Leader-in-Lighting-Balloon-Technology/

[apple geek]

we had a class on balloon lighting at my old school and they taught us how to custom make our own. it works great at night for dark or creepy scenes. basically we just got a spot light and put a lamp shade looking thing ( i forgot the technically name for this thing) over the top of it, stuck the light on a pole and turned it into basically a street light and positioned it over the actors or actresses head and it looked excellent. we had ours rigged for scrims and fillers just in case .
prolly one of the more useful things i learned at that godforsaken place, i have some pics of this somewhere, ill have to dig and see if i can find them. great find and read though! if i make it out there, ill show you how to create this thing for under 10 bucks

[melomunki]

Wow that's pretty cool! Yeah totally would love to see how it works.

Yeah supposedly the balloon lighting has been in use for over a decade now. The LED one I believe is pretty recent, like within the past year or so.