Will_Williams
New Member
Hello everyone,
This is my first post and I need help with a project.
I need to create a lighting scenario for a dance performance. The dancer wants to work with vessels of water which reflect/refract light and causes a caustic light effect - here is an image of a caustic light effect:
Unfortunately she won’t be performing in a place where the ambient light can be controlled. It will be a glass walled building during day time.
She wants a single shaft of light which can create this effect regardless of the ambient light conditions. When doing tests with a profile spotlight the effect looked good in a darkened room but disappeared immediately in a sunlit room - even on a cloudy day. Unfortunately controlling the outside light by darkening the room is not an option.
Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Are there any good lamps that work particularly well with reflections on water and that can create the caustic light effect efficiently? What kind of lamp would I have to use to compete with sunshine - and what would be the minimum requirements of such a lamp?
A quick word about me - I’m a visual artist and not a lighting professional - so layman's terms as much as possible would be very helpful
Many thanks in advance!
This is my first post and I need help with a project.
I need to create a lighting scenario for a dance performance. The dancer wants to work with vessels of water which reflect/refract light and causes a caustic light effect - here is an image of a caustic light effect:
Unfortunately she won’t be performing in a place where the ambient light can be controlled. It will be a glass walled building during day time.
She wants a single shaft of light which can create this effect regardless of the ambient light conditions. When doing tests with a profile spotlight the effect looked good in a darkened room but disappeared immediately in a sunlit room - even on a cloudy day. Unfortunately controlling the outside light by darkening the room is not an option.
Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Are there any good lamps that work particularly well with reflections on water and that can create the caustic light effect efficiently? What kind of lamp would I have to use to compete with sunshine - and what would be the minimum requirements of such a lamp?
A quick word about me - I’m a visual artist and not a lighting professional - so layman's terms as much as possible would be very helpful
Many thanks in advance!