<div dir="ltr">Both are good choices from Jeff. Also, older but still useful for the basics is "Lighting The Stage: Art and Practice by Willard Bellman". The section on control and much of instrumentation will be dated, but the concepts hold up well.<div>Steve</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Stephen E. Rees</div><div dir="ltr">RAC Addition Project Shepherd<div>State University of New York at Fredonia</div><div>716.673.3208 Office</div><div>716.680.1565 Mobile</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Jeffrey E. Salzberg via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">"The Magic of Light" is more about Jean Rosenthal than about lighting (but still well worth it). Try Kevin Allen's new book or the Stage Lighting for Students website (<a href="http://www.stagelightingprimer.com" target="_blank">www.stagelightingprimer.com</a>)</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 23, 2017 7:22 PM, Tanner via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_7520157552353919999quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><p><span style="color:#1f497d">Hello,</span></p><p><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#1f497d">First, excuse me for being a bit of a lurker in the SML. I really enjoy the wide variety of discussions here and I’ve learned a lot about several topics that I don’t have much experience with. Thanks for that.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d">I grew up in a house with rigging installers and despite working as a hand for a while in high school and college, lighting is something that I have never had much exposure to other than focusing and otherwise working from the neck down. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d">Obviously I’m not going to read a book and be a lighting designer (nor is that my goal), but its starkly missing from my tech knowledge and I’d like to be educated enough to be able to have a conversation with designers and operators. Basically, I’m looking for the <u>Stage Rigging Handbook</u> of stage lighting, if such an animal exists. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d">A friend of mine who works as a LD recommended <u>The Magic of Light: The Craft and Career of Jean Rosenthal</u> but it’s out of print and quite spendy. I figure with the advent of LED a lot of older resources are now obsolete. I figure SML would do a better job of guiding me than amazon reviews. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d">Anyone have a recommendation?</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d">Thanks,</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d">Tanner Brants</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d">Protech Rigging & Automation</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>______________________________<br>
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