Thanks for the info!! Did you get a chance to check out my lighting pics??? Ive only been doing this for 4 months, so any knowledge or critique i can get is greatly appreciated.
I saw some of your pictures, I think you're doing some really cool interesting things with the
drop behind the drumset, but maybe try and use some more
power in your backlighting, mix some more color into your front lights.
For
stage lighting I've used the rule of 2x the amount of light needs to come from backlight for it to really read through the front light. Whether that's using lighter gels (I know I just said use more color), or 2x the
power, I think it could help.
Also, if you have the lights, try going to a stanley
mccandless model with rocklight colors, check out the
LEE website for
gel preset colors for ideas.
I understand that you have your hangable space right on top of your
stage, but instead of contrast of front v back, you have a color mixing going on because of the similarity of the angles.
This was all I could see from the slideshow, I'm only a starter myself so feel free to disregard, but I think you are doing a really good job for only 4 months in, and that you know what looks good and what doesn't. Also, posting the pictures (the slideshow was killing me) could help. Feel free to hit me up on aim if you want to talk more one on one.
Example1: in this gorgeous picture of me from this summer (stupid sweet charity...
) this green color is coming from like a back/side and the orange is coming from the opposite front/diag, and I think it looks pretty...well creepy, but it demonstrates pretty well what back diags can do for contrast and dynamics.
the second example (with the slow motion
refraction on the
lens ) is a much closer to what 2 opposing back diags can look like, it also spills the light down the chest on either side and sculpts the figure pretty well.