[Foster Collins]

Thanks, Dennis,
Things have been fine out here at our Little Studio on the Prairie. Too busy to get to any seminars for a long time. We’ll have to get together and catch up sometime. Life is good.
Foster Collins
Lighting Director
NET Television
University of Nebraska / Lincoln

[Foster Collins]

As a packrat LD at a PBS production facility, I’ve recently developed my own space lights using a variation on Dennis’s suggestion. I had a seamstress fabricate 18″ x 18″ x 18″ bags from grid cloth (or sail cloth available from Rose Brand) to clip directly to the frame of an 18″ scoop. The frame holds 1/4″ hardware cloth to avoid that occasional broken bulb. The bottom of the bag is full grid cloth, and the sides(one continuous piece) are 1/2 grid cloth (to avoid that hot spot under the unit.) The open top of the square bag easily clips to the 18″ frame with paper clamps. The scoops, 1970’s vintage Kliegls, had been in “storage” for longer than I’d like to admit, but now I’m glad I had ’em. Pointed straight down, the “bag lights” are not the prettiest things to look at, but they fill the stage with great soft light. They also make great “house lights” when the fluorescent overheads are’t bright enough. These units use FHM double end quartz lamps, and never made good soft scoops, but they work great for these.
Foster Collins
Lighting Director
NET Television
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