Members of the LEE Filters team were invited for an exclusive behind the scenes tour of the Royal Opera House in London, and had the opportunity to check out the extensive stock of LEE Filters gel! A big thank you to Justin Cook - Lighting Systems Manager, and Nathan White from the Royal Opera House for the excellent tour!
How to use gel lighting to enhance your portraiture - Amateur Photographer: The use of coloured gels in photography reached fever pitch in the 1980s, but as the colour combinations became more and more garish and visually offensive they eventually fell out of fashion. It’s only recently that coloured gels have seen a resurgence, with digital photography empowering a new generation of photographers...
Liz West: “Your Color Perception at Manchester Science Festival” “This year’s Manchester Science Festival Salford University’s Allerton Studios will be transformed by artist Liz West into a sensory, visceral experience through an overload of artificial chromatic light.Using the gallery as a laboratory West tested the influence and perception of luminous colour in architectural space and on...
“Travelling Light”- An exhibition of 30 black & white and colour landscape photographs by award winning Steve Gosling Photography. Opening Saturday 28th November 2015 and running through Tuesday 20th January 2016 at the Friends Gallery in Keswick, Cumbria. Entrance to the exhibition is free! Steve will also be holding a special talk on 5th December. Tickets are required for that event. Visit www...
New Video from LEE Filters! Director of Photography Don McVey and Kieron Jansch from Manned Camera tested every #LEEFilters Diffusion gel over two days with a single M8 HMI camera comparing the effects of each. For a full blog of his test, click HERE!
We’re excited to announce our newest range of lighting filters, The Zircon Range, specifically designed for LED lighting with a lifespan of up to 200 times longer than the standard lighting filter! Manufactured using a 180-micron material, they are more than double the thickness of a normal lighting filter. The range features 9 different colours and 3 diffusion filters, available in 3 sizes! For...
LEE Filters recently sponsored an event held by the IALD (International Association of Lighting Designers) in Manchester, England in support of Liz West who discussed her work as an artist using colour and light, specifically using LEE Filters gel in many of her works of art! Liz’s talk inspired Lighting Designers to think of colour in a new way. It was a packed house, and an incredibly successful...
“Your Colour Perception”- Liz West Site-specific Installation (T8 fluorescent bulbs, LEE Filters gels) “Your Colour Perception” incorporated all 5000 square feet of Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House fourth floor in Manchester. The work was developed in direct response to the space prior. West reacted to the architectural space using colour and light to create vast immersive...
New Video from LEE Filters! Professional Lighting Designer Declan Randall gives a practical guide to colour matching across LED and Tungsten lights. He demonstrates how the new LED filters from LEE can help control the marked differences in colour rendering.
New Video from LEE Filters! Cameraman Robin Lambert presents an overview of using LEE Filters to correct different colour casts. Want to check out the rest of our videos? Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Feed Here!