India, Sept. 18 -- The New York-based gaffer and camera OP appreciates how modern lighting tools and technology are transforming the way gaffers build, control and adapt light on set, while visual judgement remains at the heart of the craft.

The lighting department in film and the entertainment sector has never stood still. As filmmaking technology develops, gaffers have gained access to more ways of shaping, controlling, and adapting light than ever before. LED fixtures, wireless control, DMX, and CRMX systems, sophisticated effects programming, and increasingly flexible lighting packages have changed the practical side of working on a set. For a modern gaffer, understanding these systems today is no longer simply a technical advantage....