Dare to Light! What is this all about?

Dare To Light is about good ideas to help you use light in your work in a better way. It’s not

Showlight 2013

Exciting news! Dare to Light will be presenting a short insert at the Showlight 2013 conference in C

Sun and fire – why we light the world around us

Most of our history has passed with not much artificial lighting. We have spent our days in the sunl

Shadows and reflections – what your art class forgot to teach.

Light is what makes everything visible. With the information we read from the shadows we are able to

 

Dare to Light! What is this all about?

December 9, 2011 in Uncategorized

Dare To Light is about good ideas to help you use light in your work in a better way. It’s not about professional slang, complicated installations or rocket science. It is about learning and trying out simple, practical things.

We want to see creative people understanding the simple heurekas of how lighting works without feeling like an idiot drowned in bone-dry physics. We want you to know what to want from lighting and to use whatever you have available in the best possible way.

We want to create a community for people interested to discuss and learn about lights. We want to offer tutorials for learning and workshops to those, who see lighting as part of their art, work, or life, but do not desire to become professional lighting designer or understand all scientific details..

Why would I need any of this?

We have seen what you do. You’re completely awesome in that. But it’s obvious you haven’t really thought about the lights. And that makes us sad. Your awesomeness deserves to be seen in some kick-ass lighting atmosphere instead of some random lights turned on. It doesn’t matter whether you’re performing on stage, designing an interior, opening a cafe or just throwing a party in your living room, lights are definitely worth thinking about.

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Showlight 2013

May 5, 2013 in ideas, slideshow

Exciting news! Dare to Light will be presenting a short insert at the Showlight 2013 conference in Cesky Krumlov on May 21. It will be a little commentary on the roles in the life of a lighting designer along with extracts from Light Up Your Life.

There are a lot of other interesting speakers scheduled for the conference, see the full list here – http://www.showlight.org/learn/ -

And if you’re around, don’t miss us in the wonderful Cesky Krumlov. It is impossible to express how excited we are to have our little venture be a part of a global conference such as Showlight. showlight2013

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Sun and fire – why we light the world around us

March 1, 2013 in ideas, slideshow

Most of our history has passed with not much artificial lighting. We have spent our days in the sunlight and nights by the fire, and these are the light sources that we are still most used to. We still state the natural light to be perfect, trying to copy its qualities when developing lighting technologies. And when describing our artificial light sources, all the parameters are based on the qualities of natural light.

Sunlight
The Sun is a very intense and small light source very far away. All the rays from the Sun reach the Earth’s surface at the same angle, causing directional shadows. Sometimes the Sun’s rays are filtered in clouds and atmosphere, making the whole sky a large, glowing light source that gives out diffuse light. In this case the light rays hit Earth under many different angles. Under direct sunlight, shadows are very clear and dark, whereas on a cloudy day with diffuse lighting there might not be one single shadow noticeable. Usually, the daylight is a combination of these two – direct and diffuse. As clouds move and the weather constantly changes, sunlight never remains in a static state for long.


The pink backlight comes directly from the setting sun that is visible in the background. The blue hue in the shadows is diffuse light reflected from the clear blue sky.

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Shadows and reflections – what your art class forgot to teach.

January 29, 2013 in ideas, slideshow

Light is what makes everything visible. With the information we read from the shadows we are able to determine the shape of objects without touching them. Drawing classes often teach us through practical experience – copying the shadows and highlights of simple objects over and over again. However, the great masters of painting researched lighting further than that. It is much easier to put a still life on paper if one understands the way lighting interacts with the objects.

Shadows

A shadow is an area blocked from the light, usually behind an object. There is rarely such a thing as a complete shadow. In a natural environment, light bounces around and reflects from surfaces. Therefore even the shadow areas receive a certain amount of light.

The surfaces directly facing the light source are the brightest, transforming smoothly into a shadow over curves or sharply over angles. In case of texture, the coarseness of the surface will be visible because of the shadows from the reliefs. Even a highly textured surface will appear flat, if lit perpendicularly to the texture.

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