Aleksander did a complete digital solid-state lighting installation for a new studio layout he designed that's dedicated to news programming. "Everything was predicated on energy-efficient lighting from the start," he explains. "Since it was new, we were able to build out the studio without the traditional heavy support for cooling down the lights and the full dimming load normally necessary for an incandescent approach. We used all fluorescent and LED lighting."
Aleksander evaluated a number of fixtures then concluded that "for hard-edge, profile fixtures, the best bang for the buck came from the Robert Juliat Tibos." The Tibo 533 75w LED Profile offers a high-intensity LED array, double condenser optics and extremely low energy consumption..
The eight Tibos, which Aleksander obtained from Barbizon Light of Texas, serve primarily as set accent lights. "There are a number of logos and graphic elements on the set, and the Tibos are perfect for picking them out," he says. "Where some panels in the background are not well detailed, we used the Tibos with defocused projection patterns to add texture and shape."
Aleksander selected daylight-balanced Tibos for "a much closer match for the video display walls, which are an integral part of the set." In addition, the daylight-balanced fixtures were chosen because one wall of the newsroom is open with windows "and we wanted to match colour temperatures so what the camera sees consistently carries proper colour. We also needed to match color temperatures to insure the cameras could be properly white-balanced."
Chris Boyd was the sales person at Barbizon Light of Texas; Robin Crews was the representative at Spectrum Lighting. At KTMD-TV Todd Taylor is the director of technology.
(Jim Evans)
