Lighting Technician Services

Here is how the work lines up. Lighting technicians on our books are drawn from the daily working pool of IATSE Local 52 electricians who staff Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Silvercup in Long Island City, Kaufman Astoria in Queens, York Studios in the Bronx and Broadway Stages across Brooklyn, where HBO, Apple TV+, Netflix NY and Amazon set the cadence for episodic and feature work. NYC electricians come up through the Local 52 apprentice track and carry the same discipline into location shoots across Manhattan brownstones, Hudson Yards skyscrapers, DUMBO lofts and Hamptons estates.

Here is how the work shapes up. The inventory they handle on a common day spans ARRI SkyPanel S60 and S30 soft sources for daylight and studio work, M-Series HMI heads for sunlight pushes against Manhattan window walls, Aputure 1200d and 600x for fast deployment on Brooklyn street locations, Mole-Richardson tungsten units for the warm, period-leaning palette NYC features still favour, and Astera Titan and Helios tubes for practical-heavy interiors at Greenwich Village townhouses and Soho gallery shoots.

Here is how it adds up. On the electric side, technicians are trained on NYC's 120/208V split-phase mains and the city-tie conventions that ConEd applies to power draws on historic Manhattan buildings, so load calculations, distro routing and cable management arrive correctly named rather than guessed at. Power packs operation, dimmer board work and rigging at height are covered under IATSE Local 52 contract dates, with FDNY film safety forms and NYC DOB high-rise rigging permits handled before crew lands.

Here is the run-down. Our coordinators size each electric team to the lighting plan agreed with the gaffer and DP — best boy plus one for a single-camera interview, a full rigging swing for a Steiner Stage A night exterior, an Eastern Effects condor rig for a Manhattan rooftop or a Long Island estate shoot.

We keep relationships with Eastern Effects in Gowanus, Stockwell Studios, Hello Bro NY, JR Lighting and Cinelease, and technicians are accustomed to taking direction from global DPs in English while liaising with location managers, NYPD Movie & TV Unit officers and venue management.