Photo of one of a few color gobo lights going out for the Winter X-Games in Aspen, Colorado that are running from January 22nd – 25th 2015.
We combined them with some of our battery powered uplights in our shop and grabbed a photo before we shipped them out.
Mixing together gobo lights with uplights is a great way to combine two lighting elements that work really well together.
Lights were used to project the corporate sponsors for a fundraiser held on a Washington, DC rooftop. Sponsors included Paisano’s pizza, Spinfire, Burger7 and Tedd & The Bully Bar.
This summer our rental gobo lighting was featured at the 2nd annual All White Charity Event for the Boy’s and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington DC hosted by Washington Redskin Pierre Garçon. This year the event was held on the rooftop of the Millennium Building.
Our corporate logo lights were used to showcase some of the food sponsors for the event. Even at twilight the logos were visible to the attendees for a very packed rooftop.
Using rental gobo lighting is a great way to showcase event sponsors in a dynamic and eye catching way that traditional printed signs won’t do.
Corporate clients can offer this type of high visibility signage at a fraction of the cost of having a lighting company come in and do it for them by going directly to the source.
Using two logos per gobo made it possible to keep the costs for the gobo rental lights low while still achieving the same high visibility look the event required.
The lights that we use are custom made to project the most clear image possible making it the perfect choice where brand identity and high level brand standards need to be met.
For this event we were able to combine two logos per gobo to cut down on cost and increase the amount of money this non-profit event was able to raise.
Event Sponsors:
Your high school’s logo in a light for your reunion and quickly personalize any space.
Lighting will make a big difference for your high school reunion. Use a custom gobo light to recreate your high school’s mascot logo and quickly personalize the space your reunion is in.
Rent uplights to add your high schools color to the space and add to the overall lighting levels of the venue that you are in. In this case they used blue and red to recreate the colors of Edison High School in Alexandria, VA for a 10 year reunion for the class of 2002.
Save money on lots of customized items and small displays and make a huge impact with lighting allowing your guests to not only see each other better but to personalize bars, clubs, hotels, pavilions or any other space your reunion might take place.
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Find out today how much you’ll save and how much of an impact is possible by renting uplighting and decorations for your high school reunion.
Recreate the colors of your school anywhere with our rental uplighting.
Bride and groom dancing with their wedding monogram and uplighting behind them.
A high arched ceiling and simple walls are pretty plain for a wedding. Brighten the walls and the room and pull together your color by renting wireless uplighting and a rental monogram light.
A lot of venues like vineyards are amazing outdoors and offer a great cocktail hour experience but their reception spaces can be somewhat plain. Lighting is the lowest cost option to transform the space for your wedding and make it completely personalized.
Simple walls are enhanced with a monogram and a purple uplighting.
Even with daylight in the room the uplights did a great job pulling together the bride and groom’s colors and creating the perfect ambiance for their wedding.
Venue: Molan Lave Vineyards – Warrenton, VA
Entertainment: Wedding DJ & Ceremony – Superlative Events
St. Patricks day gobos that can be used as texture lighting to add Irish flair to your event.
St. Patrick’s Day is an international holiday celebrated by Irish and Irish-for-a-day around the world. Whether your party is in a bar, pub, hotel, conference center, house, or outside, using gobo lighting can be an easy and really cost-effective way to decorate.
Our collection of St. Patrick’s Day gobos are perfect for getting the feel of the Emerald Isle at your event. These are great to use with any of our texture lighting rentals. We can also create them for use in any LED projector that will take a transparency gobo.
Add a little luck of the Irish to your party with our St. Patrick’s Day gobos!
Side by side differences in gobo sizes.
The gobo size that you need is based on the light fixture that will project that gobo. Many traditional theater style lights like a Source 4 ellipsoidal light or LEKO light will use a size B gobo (about the diameter of a coke can). Cheap DJ effect lights like the Chauvet Zoom or American DJ LED gobo projector use a custom gobo size that is about the size of a dime.
It’s based on the the power of the light source.
More powerful light sources use bigger gobo sizes because there is more light to shoot through a larger template and the template needs more surface area to dissipate heat. Stronger light sources result in a brighter, bigger image but often comes at the expense of a larger sized light fixture.
Small cheap effect lights like the Chauvet Zoom, American DJ Gobo Projector LED are not recommended. These lights use teeny-tiny gobo templates to project with limiting detail and brightness. These lights may look good in a small dark bedroom or living room but don’t hold up to real life events of more than 30 people.
Example of a D-sized transparency gobo used at an event results in an extremely clear image.
Smaller gobo sizes mean there is less physical space to print detailed images. Smaller gobos are better suited for blockier, less detailed designs like the cross shape used in the smallest gobo in our example photo. More detailed designs like those used for weddings are better suited to larger gobo sizes (E-size or bigger).
When considering a gobo light this is what we recommend:
Here is a table of some popular standardized gobo sizes and common light fixtures that use those gobo sizes:
| Letter Size | O.D. (mm) | I.A. (mm) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Size | 100 | 75 | |
| B Size | 86 | 64.5 | Standard Size for Ellipsoidal lights (Source 4, Source 4 Zoom) |
| M Size | 66 | 48 | Source 4 Jr. |
| G Size | 65.5 | 48 | For Clay Paky Goldenscans |
| D Size | 53.3 | 38 | Martin PR-1, LEDSpot 40 |
| E Size | 37.5 | 28 | LEDSpot 25, LEDSpot 30 |
| O.D = Outside Diameter; I.A. = Image Area | |||
The OD (Outer Diameter) number is the diameter of the actual template itself. The IA (Image Area) number is the useable are that can be used to print the image used for the gobo. It’s important to know these numbers when ordering a gobo, especially the IA. The IA can change from light fixture to light fixture even for commonly used gobo sizes. Make sure you know the OD and the IA of the gobo size for your particular lighting fixture you’ll be using for your event. Also know what types of gobos your light supports.
Gobo sizes compared showing a Chauvet Gobo Zoom 2.0 vs. the LED 40 lights Superlative Events uses.
When ordering a gobo know the OD and the IA of the light fixture you’re using. Realize that larger gobo sizes can support higher levels of detail in the resulting image. Most corporate gobos are B-size.
Questions, corrections, comments? Let us know in the comments below.
Two color gobo template with circles that inspired the design.
We are expecting our first child and there is a lot of pressure that comes with that! The most pressure (so far) came from announcing our child to the world…
People expect designers to be creative, they expect us to do things that other people wouldn’t spend 5 seconds on, and they expect it to be amazing. In other words, pressure.
Any designer can tell you, it’s easy being creative for other people but being creative for yourself and for your future progeny is a whole different ball game.
My wife Kari is the real designer in the family. She was on Etsy and was inspired by a great example of our last name “King” with a crown in the design on the front of a onesie. Going with the regal theme and the play on our last name she wanted it to say “Heir Apparent” somewhere and the expected date of our progeny.
It made it easier to think of Kari as the client and then coming up with ideas around her vision.
I knew that the design would require taking over our living room. We ordered the onesie and on the day it arrived Kari had to go to a work function and I thought it would be the perfect time to create the announcement and take over the house. I knew that I wanted a soft pink and blue in the background and I wanted to the shirt to really pop out of the background. I made the pink and blue gobo design so I could get the pink and blue aspect of the design to pop out of the background when projected with a gobo light.
I knew that the white onesie would have to be in focus while the background would need to be blurred. I used some twine and two lighting stands to hang the shirt from so I could get enough distance between the shirt and the background to get the blur effect right. I also knew I needed a ton of light specifically on the shirt so I could get a really high contrast look so I ended up using three of our cake spotlight rental lights.
I needed a wall to project on and a flat boring wall wasn’t interesting enough. I ended up using the curtains for our windows on the front of our house to project onto. The light did a really great job covering up the gray and white scroll pattern on the window treatment while adding some texture and interest in behind the colored circles of light.
I used a prime 50mm lens shot at f/1.8 so I could get a blurred background while keeping the shirt in focus.
The final birth announcement that we created.
As with most creative endeavors the devil’s in the details. I added some detail to the clothes pins holding the onesie to make them blue and pink, added a crown to the label on the shirt, enhanced the contrast and some colors as well as adding the text.
It helps having an entire inventory of lighting at my disposal, but thinking creatively with light can enable a number of design ideas and projects that would be otherwise impossible to do. Texture lighting like the gobo lights are infinitely versatile and we can help you come up with a way to use lighting creatively for your projects.
I think it came out pretty well and most importantly checked off the hardest part of having a child (so far). What do you think? Ideas, thoughts, comment below.
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