Monday, January 9, 2012

Up Lighting - Sacramento DJ


Sacramento DJ

As a Sacramento Wedding DJ, I was not a big believer in up lighting. When it first started to make the scene around 2006, I thought most DJs were using it as a crutch to mask their lack of ability. Eventually we added it to our repertoire out of sheer competition. Grumbling most of the way I might add. 

Then, a funny thing happened. One of our pro videographer friends related how much better his video was because of two things. First, our unique interaction with the guests. Second, the lighting.
WHAT!!? How could that be? Because of the visuals lighting was creating, his finished video was more  interesting to look at. It was giving more depth and texture. I soon heard the same thing from a couple of photographers as well. Just goes to show I am never done learning. We now use it to "paint and texture" the wall at venues all over.

The photo above is at the Radisson Hotel Scaramento. This room looked pretty plain without them, then POW! Blue! In fact you can even see how the blue is reflecting all the way down the roof. This was an event for 675 people and it changed the feel of the room. I'm quite a believer these days. Even the most simple set up seems affecting.

As for the logistics we had our lights custom made so that we would not need as many to accomplish the same thing as some that are using twice as many! The wall is nearly 100 feet long
yet we were able to do that with only 8 lights! As for that red light you see, that is the light guiding people to our sacramento photo booth. Don't get me started on what I thought about those either...

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