[SML] orange streetlights

[Steven Haworth]

Sodium vapor... still have them in Chicago.  Ugly!!
CRI of about 10.  :-(


- Steven Haworth
Lighting - http://www.stagelights.info*/*


On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Judith Kupferman via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> "I also remember that the streetlights in San Diego were an ugly orange
> color and they really bothered me.. What kind of lamps were those?"
>
> They were probably low pressure sodium lights. The most really
> monochromatic light ever built outside a laser, they really had only
> two (yellow) wave lengths. As a result you couldn't see colors with
> them.
>
> I saw a terrific use of this in the Stuttgart Ballet's production of
> Sleeping Beauty, where the witch casts a spell at the ball. At first
> the stage is lit in a kind of straw orangy color which looks just like
> those lamps, but you can see all the colors of the ball gowns. Then
> they added the sodium lights and when she cast the spell, they faded
> out all the regular lights. And all the colors of the ball gowns
> drained away!
>
> Judy
>
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