Full Name
BRAD DICKSON
Job Title
Consultant
Company
Lighting Video
Speaker Bio
Former Senior Lighting Director / Technical Instructor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for 37 years working on Variety Shows, Comedy Shows, News Productions, Awards Shows, and Sporting Events along with feature films.
Created the worlds first all-LED lit News Studio
Converted a number of Studios at CBC to LED lighting and created all LED-Lit studios for the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Incubator for LED fixture development providing input to achieve a better quality of fixture designed for the camera.
Currently on the American Society of Cinematographers, Lighting, Education, and System Integration committees
Co-created the HS Scope, designed to calibrate lights to the needs of the camera based on the camera's electronic chroma signal.
Presented webinars and in-person training globally on the methodology of calibrating lighting to the needs of the camera along with the integration of lighting to match the output of LED video walls, all based on the camera's chroma signal.
Instructor on lighting for the camera giving presentations in New York, Los Angles, Copenhagen, and Singapore, for Broadcast, Cinema, and Theatre professionals.
Created the worlds first all-LED lit News Studio
Converted a number of Studios at CBC to LED lighting and created all LED-Lit studios for the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Incubator for LED fixture development providing input to achieve a better quality of fixture designed for the camera.
Currently on the American Society of Cinematographers, Lighting, Education, and System Integration committees
Co-created the HS Scope, designed to calibrate lights to the needs of the camera based on the camera's electronic chroma signal.
Presented webinars and in-person training globally on the methodology of calibrating lighting to the needs of the camera along with the integration of lighting to match the output of LED video walls, all based on the camera's chroma signal.
Instructor on lighting for the camera giving presentations in New York, Los Angles, Copenhagen, and Singapore, for Broadcast, Cinema, and Theatre professionals.
Speaking At
TTC 2021 Speaker Type
Presenter, Roundtable
Topic and Description
Topic: Using the camera's chroma signal to evaluate and calibrate LED lighting and video walls
Description: This session will cover the shortfalls of the current lighting measurements used by end-users and manufacturers to evaluate, calibrate led lights and video walls to match on camera. I will show how an imbalance can occur in the cameras when the focus of calibration is on colour meter readings instead of the actual response of the camera's image sensor. I will show the workflow that has been adopted by many virtual studios that use video walls and led lighting to get a harmonious balance between all of these based on the needs of the camera's image sensors response. I will cover the HS Scope and how it guides the end-user to obtain a calibrated setting that is based on the various camera's chroma responses. I will show the need to calibrate for the various cameras and the shortfalls of using global lighting measurements instead of camera-specific measurements.
Video walls are being used for VR sets with LED lighting. There remains a diversity of output quality along with a variety of responses from cameras image sensors. You can see the wide range of mismatching that can occur. I have worked with LEDs and video walls for decades and using my methodology I have been able to get harmony between these elements no matter the camera as I used the chroma signal as my guideline. My methodology has now been adopted by some top VR studios globally. Many gaffers have stated my methodology is the missing link they have been looking for.
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Roundtable Topic: Using the camera's chroma signal to evaluate and calibrate LED lighting and video walls
Description: Q & A Session
Description: This session will cover the shortfalls of the current lighting measurements used by end-users and manufacturers to evaluate, calibrate led lights and video walls to match on camera. I will show how an imbalance can occur in the cameras when the focus of calibration is on colour meter readings instead of the actual response of the camera's image sensor. I will show the workflow that has been adopted by many virtual studios that use video walls and led lighting to get a harmonious balance between all of these based on the needs of the camera's image sensors response. I will cover the HS Scope and how it guides the end-user to obtain a calibrated setting that is based on the various camera's chroma responses. I will show the need to calibrate for the various cameras and the shortfalls of using global lighting measurements instead of camera-specific measurements.
Video walls are being used for VR sets with LED lighting. There remains a diversity of output quality along with a variety of responses from cameras image sensors. You can see the wide range of mismatching that can occur. I have worked with LEDs and video walls for decades and using my methodology I have been able to get harmony between these elements no matter the camera as I used the chroma signal as my guideline. My methodology has now been adopted by some top VR studios globally. Many gaffers have stated my methodology is the missing link they have been looking for.
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Roundtable Topic: Using the camera's chroma signal to evaluate and calibrate LED lighting and video walls
Description: Q & A Session
