Recently I was asked to lecture at a college for a course in advanced cinematography. The professor asked that I include color theory in my lecture and at first, I was a little overwhelmed at the ...

High-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs) continue to revolutionize the lighting industry due to the added flexibility and intelligence they bring to lighting systems, including white-light and ...

High-brightness (HB) LEDs continue to increase in popularity due to the numerous advantages they offer when compared to the conventional lighting solutions. One of the advantages of HB LEDs is their ...

Photometers or light meters are radiometers that include a filter and photodiode and responds based on the average human eye: the CIE 1924 luminosity function V λ. However, the light sensitive diode ...

When we discuss colour in filmmaking, we're usually interested being – well – correct. But we might also talk about the steel blue of night, an amber sunset, or the greenish tinge that comes from ...

If there’s an engineering hierarchy of LED lighting, colour-mixing hard lights are at the top of it, combining all the difficulty of colour control with putting all the emitters in one place. For a ...

How do you find the quality of the light a light bulb produces? Using the color rendering index, a measure of how well a light bulb illuminates a range of colors. Appliance Science looks at the ...

Funded with help from the Arts National Library, An Additive Mix was commissioned to explore the science of art and light in celebration of the 2015 UNESCO International Year of Light. The free family ...