Lighting Types

  • Fresnel — soft-edged wash light with adjustable focus via flood/spot knob
  • Ellipsoidal (Leko / ERS) — hard-edged spotlight with shutters, iris, and gobo slot
  • PAR Can — high-output wash light using PAR lamps or LED arrays
  • Moving Head — automated fixture with pan, tilt, gobo, color, zoom
  • LED Wash — color-mixing LED fixture; RGBW or RGBA arrays
  • LED Strip / Batten — linear wash for cycloramas and set pieces

Part of the Lighting Tutorials series.