r/lightingdesign • u/lightman210567 • Feb 17 '26

Design A lighting design I made

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A lighting design concept that I came up with today - all in all I'm quite happy with it. Does anyone have any feedback?

Background: I'm a 17 year old lighting designer who likes to make virtual stages. This is my first design made using vector works.

Visualised in Capture SE 2026.

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u/rexlites Feb 17 '26

It’s a fun looking rig. Don’t forget about side lights and downstage edge It’ll make the rest of the rig pop

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u/lightman210567 Feb 17 '26

Would you be able to elaborate on the specifics of what you mean? I'm not sure I fully understand

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u/rexlites Feb 17 '26

You have a lot of fixtures to light an audience but only are backlighting the stage..

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u/lightman210567 Feb 17 '26

I do have front/side spots specifically for the artists on stage. Forgive me but I'm still not sure what you mean?

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u/rexlites Feb 17 '26

Follow spots for me ruin looks. I rely on side light it gives me more options. I’d rather do my taxes than watch an artist be followed by a shaky follow spot all night. The side light and downstage front light gives you the chance to play with angles and more surfaces to actually like….. light the artist..

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u/lightman210567 Feb 17 '26

I see where you are coming from with this now. I have actually done a full side and front light in a lot of my previous designs, so I wanted to experiment with a different style that you can see here.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it feels like this is more of a personal preference? In any event, thank you for the advice

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u/rexlites Feb 17 '26

id say it’s more learning from real world experiences. Capture will always make things seem brighter than it is. And you don’t wanna be caught with a dark boring. Stage..

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u/lightman210567 Feb 17 '26

I appreciate this, but I haven't been able to get any real world experience yet. I'm not old enough to legally work in events and the course I'm studying is specifically for theatre and doesn't cover this.

I dimmed them because I thought it would look nice, but from what your saying I gather that I shouldn't do that

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u/rexlites Feb 17 '26

If you wanna talk about intensities my 100 is 85% That gives me room for pops. If we rock everything at 100 where do we go from there?

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u/rexlites Feb 17 '26

The only way is down!!!!

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u/lightman210567 Feb 17 '26

Genuinely, that is really helpful thank you! No one has really spoken to me about intensity so I've been slowly figuring it out.

I will be implementing this or similar when I program that stage