Talk:Stage lighting

message: We could use lots of pictures. Looking through some of the articles on lighting, we don't have much. I don't know if any of you have access to lights right now (unfortunately, I don't), but we could really use pictures of every instrument we mention. They don't all need to be on this page, but they should be on every instrument's main page. Production pictures which illustrate certain facets of lighting could also be very useful.
There may be usable stuff out on the Internet, but that can cause copyright troubles, so the easiest thing to do would be to take the pictures ourselves. Kevin M Marshall 22:17, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the best pictures would be of individual instruments hanging in position, possibly illuminated, but we really need the whole lantern to be visible, not just the lens! - danyoung - 21:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm hanging a show this weekend.  If I get a chance, I'll take some pictures and post them.  --Squigish 01:37, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't end up getting any pictures, my schedule was way too crazy.  I spent 15 continuous hours in the theater on Sunday....  --Squigish 16:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: I'm surprised.  This article badly needs a "History" section (if there is already one in another article, then it's not referenced).  Carbon arc lights were first used in theater lighting, for example in 1846 (Paris Opera House).  Gaslights in 1817.  Colored gaslights.  Famous theater fires caused by hazardous lighting.  Limelight.  (That's where the word "in the limelight" came from) Good information can be found at:
 
Mdrejhon 08:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Needed 

message: Also, the Spotlight (theater) article, ought to be merged with this article.  The info in the latter stub appears to be already duplicated in the main article.
Mdrejhon 08:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Needed 

message: I think each of these articles have enough detail to stand in their own right, and that merging them into Stage lighting would further clutter the main article. I say leave them how they are, and reference them from here. - danyoung - 23:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Master Electrician / Light Board Operator merges 

message: I generally support a split to stage lighting instrument. I would say everything form the Floodlights and Spotlights section could be taken to the new article, leaving an overview behind. I think it's important to maintain the exisiting further articles on each individual instrument type, to allow for more expansion, pictures, usage, etc - danyoung - 23:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stage lighting instruments split 

message: * Below, please find leftover text from the Lighting article which applies more to Stage lighting. Edit, delete, merge as required. — Dogears (talk) 21:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Orphaned text

message: Should "Focus" be added to qualities of lighting?  The focus can affect the overall effect of the lighting.  Soft and Hard focus creat many different effects JWGreen 04:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see this has been done... I forgot about my request untill someone actually made the edit. -JWGreen 19:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qualities of Lighting 

message: As of 13 October 2006, I am making a speedy failing for this article to reach Good Article status, per WP:WIAGA, because of the following fatal reason: This article is totally unsourced. Please provide your reliable sources according to WP:CITE to support the three pillars of Wikipedia: neutral point of view, no element of original research and verifiable. I've put a template in this article for editors to fill in their references. Please do not consider it as discouraging.
If all of the above matter has been fixed, this article can be renominate it again. Cheers. — Indon (reply) — 11:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Failed GA 

message: Sceneand Chase are terms I came across while installing a new DMX controller, that have not been adequately explained. Is this the page for that?
Arne 
Arne B 21:18, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chase and Scene 

message: According to Indon, the reason for the failed GA of last october was This article is totally unsourced.  That means, we better get citing.  Have fun! -JWGreen 00:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: Yes, the photos of the spectacular are irrelevant. I send out a request through WikiProject:Stagecraft for some real state lighting not concert lighting. --Wforlines 06:12, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have nothing against using a photo of instruments other than Source Fours, but I think for the lead immages we should strive to have images that are of the same quality as that Source Four image that was removed. -JWGreen 21:39, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My apologies for using a cell phone camera. KeepOnTruckin Complain to me | my work here 03:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: I have a few pics if needed
:Just an FYI on the par cans- you can't change the shape of the beam with barn doors. Or any other type of thing for that matter. KeepOnTruckin Complain to me | my work here  —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 19:48, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pics 

message: We have essentially none, and since this is a top importance article for WikiProject Stagecraft, we need to work on that, especially if we have any chance of getting this article up to GA quality.  I'll work on some in my free time, but I only have limited resources.  Lets all add a few citations and cleanup the article some as were doing that, that should get us close to GA quality. -JWGreen (talk) 20:27, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a bunch of citations from the two books that I have relevant to Stage Lighting.  As I read articles in Live Design or LSA I can add sources from there, but it would be nice to have a greater variety of sources in the article, so if anyone has any other sources, especially relevant to intelegent lighting and consoles which I do not have sources for, please add them to the article as well.  Maybe we can get this up to GA quality soon, it would be good to have a GA class article in WikiProject Stagecraft, since we don't have any right now. -JWGreen (talk) 20:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: I've changed the sentence explaining the difference between "lighting instrument" and "light."  It felt very condescending, because it implied that "light" was not a perfectly acceptable lay term for a lighting instrument.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pstinchcombe (talk • contribs) 18:33, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Lighting Instrument" vs. "Light" 

message: I put a note up for Rig (stage lighting), mostly because it isn't enough to stand on its own.   DJSparky     huh? 21:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Proposal 

message: There is a redirect to Stage Lighting from Theatrical Lighting.    But something is wrong.
I can get to two web addressed pages for the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_lighting and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_lighting.    But the content seems to be the same, including revisions.
The page that seems to be the redirect is here:   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatrical_lighting&redirect=no.
The usual note in articles about a redirect only seems to appear when I go to the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_lighting.
The talk page for each of them comes here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stage_lighting).
If I go to the article from this talk page, I always end up at the correct Stage Lighting address.
Something's strange here. But I've probably been asleep too long and cannot tell what it is. Help? Twistlethrop (talk) 17:41, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect or something strange 

message: Seems a particular source is not accepted for liquid dimmers
1882:
A big push - electric theatre at the exposition in Munich, Germany -- with a saltwater dimmer to control the new power source - went like wildfire...
https://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/spd130et/HistLighting.htm
The same system is still used to test massive KW electric generator loads :-)
220.244.104.139 (talk) 04:43, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dimming