Lee #053 Paler Lavender Gel Filter

LEE Filters: How Colour Works So you are about to light a show. You have read the script and you know what lights you are going to use. Now you have to choose which colours you are going to use. Choosing colour is arguably the most personal part of any lighting design. My favourite blue might be your worst. So how do lighting designers go about choosing colour? Well, that’s a tough question to answer, but here are some ideas that might help you to make your choice. Before we can start to use colour, we need to make sure that we understand how light works, and particularly how white light works. I am sure you are all familiar with Newton’s famous experiment where a beam of white light is refracted through a prism and we see that the beam is dispersed into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. So from that experiment we are able to deduce that white light is in fact ma