Comments on: Reflected Colour in Stage Lighting Design http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/reflected-colour-stage-lighting-design/ Stage Lighting Information and Lighting How To Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:31:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tomislav http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/reflected-colour-stage-lighting-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2133 Tomislav Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:40:32 +0000 http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/reflected-colour-stage-lighting-design/#comment-2133 Why, of course! :D No need to complicate, the thing is, there are so called "bastard color" filters right? They let through some portions of the spectrum, for example, orange with blue, although the final colour looks orange..But! The reflected color is different, because the light contains not only orange, but blue too. So this is very important to consider in stage lighting. I'm not trying to be smart. :) I had a wrong idea about light for a long time, so I don't want others to be misleaded as I was. My best regards, Tomislav, Croatia Why, of course! :D No need to complicate, the thing is, there are so called “bastard color” filters right? They let through some portions of the spectrum, for example, orange with blue, although the final colour looks orange..But! The reflected color is different, because the light contains not only orange, but blue too. So this is very important to consider in stage lighting. I’m not trying to be smart. :) I had a wrong idea about light for a long time, so I don’t want others to be misleaded as I was.
My best regards,
Tomislav, Croatia

]]> By: Rob Sayer http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/reflected-colour-stage-lighting-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2132 Rob Sayer Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:28:19 +0000 http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/reflected-colour-stage-lighting-design/#comment-2132 Hi Tomislav Thanks for your comment - you are perfectly correct in your statements about the white light spectrum and it's components. I realise that some of the wording is misleading and will make some changes. The point of the article is to help would be lighting designers understand the practicalities of reflected colour in a simple way. Hi Tomislav

Thanks for your comment – you are perfectly correct in your statements about the white light spectrum and it’s components. I realise that some of the wording is misleading and will make some changes. The point of the article is to help would be lighting designers understand the practicalities of reflected colour in a simple way.

]]> By: Tomislav http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/reflected-colour-stage-lighting-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2128 Tomislav Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:34:03 +0000 http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/lighting-design/reflected-colour-stage-lighting-design/#comment-2128 Hello! I must say that I disagree with some statements.. For example, white light that comes from the sun and the sky is NOT made up of three primary colours! The spectrum that these sources produce is continuous, and there is infinite number of colours in it.. The colour "yellow" really exists in the spectrum, and is NOT equal to red + green! The way we perceive colors is a bit unperfect, so we would perceive the mixture of red and green as yellow, just as we would perceive yellow as yellow. The receptors in our eyes filter the colour we see in 3 "primary" colours, but already filtered red+green gives the same stimulus as the colour yellow! That is why fluorescent lights, although they produce "white" light, look different from tungsten lights! Fluo lights have only a small number of colours in the spectrum, such as red, orange, green, blue and violet. You can check this by taking a DVD and adjusting it to the fluorescent light to see a rainbow..Make sure you're far enough from the bulb. You will notice a discontinued spectrum.. Now try this with a tungsten light.. Oh, and by the way, the prism, it doesn't separate light into only primary colours, does it? :) Hello!
I must say that I disagree with some statements.. For example, white light that comes from the sun and the sky is NOT made up of three primary colours! The spectrum that these sources produce is continuous, and there is infinite number of colours in it.. The colour “yellow” really exists in the spectrum, and is NOT equal to red + green! The way we perceive colors is a bit unperfect, so we would perceive the mixture of red and green as yellow, just as we would perceive yellow as yellow. The receptors in our eyes filter the colour we see in 3 “primary” colours, but already filtered red+green gives the same stimulus as the colour yellow! That is why fluorescent lights, although they produce “white” light, look different from tungsten lights! Fluo lights have only a small number of colours in the spectrum, such as red, orange, green, blue and violet. You can check this by taking a DVD and adjusting it to the fluorescent light to see a rainbow..Make sure you’re far enough from the bulb. You will notice a discontinued spectrum.. Now try this with a tungsten light.. Oh, and by the way, the prism, it doesn’t separate light into only primary colours, does it? :)

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