Penso worked with a smaller-than-usual stage for this type of show and to design lighting for the audience in the venue and for TV. Trying to find suitable lights to work around the low ceiling at Hotel Intercontinental in Caracas, Penso tested Chauvet Professional Q-Wash 560Z-LED fixtures -provided by VLPS of Venezuela - and decided they were perfect for the show.
"The colours and the brightness are spectacular," Penso said. "They change colours very fast, have great saturation, and perform in sync all the time. The Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving yokes were the only lights in the show that didn't fail."
Penso also took into consideration that the Miss Venezuela Pageant is a televised show, which means the lights needed to be suitable for on-camera use and especially for HD rendering. "A little while ago LEDs didn't look too good on TV," he said. "But now, since the Q-Wash 560Z-LED lights use Cree LEDs with high CRI value, colour rendering is no longer a negative issue specially with the HDTV technology, which perceives colours more accurately; these LED fixtures performed amazingly well."
Carrying almost 30 years of experience in the lighting industry, Penso worked with various artists from Venezuela and North America, such as Franco De Vita, Carlos Vives, Ricardo Montaner and many more. He said the Chauvet Professional fixtures are very reliable and will definitely use them again for future shows.
To light the audience, Penso also used 36 COLORado 1 Tour wash lights, for their colour changing capabilities and sturdiness.
(Jim Evans)
