Our Up Lighting Services

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Up Lighting is a subtle splash of light, usually colored, on the perimeter of walls. This is not to be confused with wall washing which turns walls into one solid color. Tone down the house lights and the room takes on a rich, warm, comfortable and romantic atmosphere. Very few lighting companies utilize and offer as many lighting units as we do at Visions Lighting for the price. It is important to us that every event has the unique ‘Visions’ up lighting experience at an affordable rate making our clients feel as rich as kings and queens. We normally use 40 to 50 stage up lighting units per event, sometimes more depending on size. Normal set up time is 3 hours with two lighting technicians on site.

Our clients often ask us what the difference is between traditional stage up lights and led up lights. We here at Visions Lighting still enjoy working with stage lighting, perhaps one day becoming a lost art. We have found that for traditional events there is nothing as romantic and comfortable as the mixture of glass, heat and light coming from stage lighting. Although it requires considerable skill and time to use this amount of lighting units in a facility and finding enough electrical power to run them. But that is what we do, time and time again.

Traditional stage up lights use a bulb and a colored gel to create the effect desired. We do not pick colors for our clients but point them to color sites and help them with their selections, too light or too dark or make a recommendation. Usually up lights are one color and rarely can be changed during event, but we do get requests to utilize 2 colors. The up lights are positioned against the base of walls and shine upward creating a wonderful splash of color, placed every few feet as the room takes on this wonderful tinge, including existing sconces and chandeliers. We make sure that all wires are secured neatly and safely.

Led up lights utilize three color “eyes”, red, green and blue and from the mixing of these colors a myriad of colors are possible. LEDs can also be changed easily by a lighting controller, and can even fade into one color after another. A lighting tech is always on hand to alter colors if needed. The LEDs are also placed on the perimeter of the walls. LEDs require very little wattage and sometimes we recommend this type of lighting if facility’s electrical power is not enough. A bit more expensive than the stage up lights, we still offer led up lighting combined with some stage up lights at a reasonable rate. Again, the emphasis with Visions Lighting is to have enough up lights to create our unique and recognizable up lighting experience.

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