--- title: "Projected Gobos Showcase \"Photosynthesis\" At San Francisco’s Conservatory Of Flowers" description: "Designers at Obscura Digital chose Rosco Custom Glass Gobos to project flowers & leaves onto San Francisco's historic Conservatory of Flowers for an installation of their \"Photosynthesis\" light art se" image: https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/Photosynthesis-Gobo-blog-Feature2.jpg --- ![](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Rosco/Images/page-top-bg.jpeg) [![NewSpectrumlogo](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/NewSpectrumlogo.png?width=320&height=150&name=NewSpectrumlogo.png)](https://spectrum.rosco.com) - [Home](https://spectrum.rosco.com/) - [About Spectrum](https://spectrum.rosco.com/rosco-spectrum-featured-products-3?hsLang=en) - [Featured Products](https://spectrum.rosco.com/rosco-spectrum-featured-products?hsLang=en) - [Rosco.com](https://us.rosco.com/en) Home About Spectrum Featured Products Rosco.com ![](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/Photosynthesis-Gobo-blog-Feature2.jpg) # Projected Gobos Showcase "Photosynthesis" At San Francisco’s Conservatory Of Flowers [The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers](https://conservatoryofflowers.org/) is a botanic greenhouse renowned for its vast collection of rare, tropical plants. The non-profit arts group [Illuminate SF](http://www.illuminatesf.com/home-page) (who also conceived the famed Bay Lights project), and [Obscura Digital](https://www.instagram.com/obscuradigitalsf/), a world-renowned creative studio specializing in large scale light-based art, used the white wood of the conservatory’s elaborate Victorian architecture as the canvas for a spectacular light and projection show entitled [*Photosynthesis: Love For All Seasons*](https://conservatoryofflowers.org/exhibits-events/love-seasons/) that featured numerous [Rosco Custom Gobos](https://www.rosco.com/products/family/gobos). The Conservatory of Flowers consists of a central dome that rises nearly 60 feet (18 m) high and two arch-shaped wings that bloom out from the dome into a building that’s 240 feet (73 m) long. In order to design the projected gobos, Obscura Digital created a 3D model of the building from a laser scan and used image warping and masking technology to create flower-inspired graphic files that would project perfectly onto the building’s front façade. The team at Rosco’s gobo manufacturing facility in Texas then [keystone-corrected](https://spectrum.rosco.com/index.php/2016/06/keystone-correct-your-gobos/?hsLang=en) the graphic files to account for the projection angle and turned those graphic files into Multi-Color [Custom Glass Gobos](https://www.rosco.com/product/custom-glass-gobos). [![Flower themed projected gobos at The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/2REV-Photosynthesis_1-1.jpg?width=1200&height=870&name=2REV-Photosynthesis_1-1.jpg)](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/2REV-Photosynthesis_1-1.jpg?hsLang=en)The gobo artwork was inspired by the changing seasons and showcases the fascinating aspects of a flower’s life cycle. Throughout the show, the audience experienced projected gobos of a new plant sprouting from a seed, the emergence of its leaves and the budding of its blooms - in a cyclical repetition that evoked the changing of the seasons. ![Flower themed gobos projected on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/3-Photosynthesis-gobo-blog-winterslideinside-2.jpg?width=1200&height=690&name=3-Photosynthesis-gobo-blog-winterslideinside-2.jpg)Designers at Obscura Digital chose Rosco Custom Gobos for *Photosynthesis: Love For All Seasons* because they offered superior color consistency than the other gobos they were considering. Shannon Densmore, Producer at Obscura Digital, commented: “We chose Rosco gobos because Rosco did a way better job of matching the colors our artists had selected.” Our incomparable ability to match colors is due to the fact that Rosco is the only gobo manufacturer that makes its own dichroic glass. This enables us to tweak the cyan, magenta and yellow layers any way we need to in order to achieve the best possible match to the requested color. > [          View this post on Instagram                      ](https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf6-rBHFB5w/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) > > [A post shared by Conservatory of Flowers (@conservatoryofflowers)](https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf6-rBHFB5w/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) To learn more about San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers and their upcoming exhibits and events, visit their website: [conservatoryofflowers.org](https://conservatoryofflowers.org/). For more information about the products Obscura Digital used to immerse the Conservatory of Flowers in colorful flower images, [explore the Custom Gobos page](http://www.rosco.com/products/family/gobos#Type) on the Rosco website. Tatiana Massano August 22, 2019 [Questions?](mailto:spectrum@rosco.com) [Architecture](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/architecture) ![](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/Tatiana-Massano2-160x160.jpg) ## About Tatiana Massano Content Marketing Specialist: Based in the Madrid office, Tatiana is ideally positioned to share inspiring stories of how customers use Rosco products to accomplish their ideas in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. ### Related post [Projecting Room Numbers At The Ritz](https://spectrum.rosco.com/index.php/2017/07/projecting-room-numbers-at-the-ritz?hsLang=en) [Shooting With DMG DASH™: Four Lighting Tips From Gaffer Francisco Izaguirre](https://spectrum.rosco.com/shooting-with-dmg-dash-four-lighting-tips-from-gaffer-francisco-izaguirre?hsLang=en) [Rosco CrystalGel – An Out Of This World Primer For Painting Foam & Synthetics](https://spectrum.rosco.com/index.php/2021/10/rosco-crystalgel-an-out-of-this-world-primer-for-painting-foam-synthetics?hsLang=en) [Filling Coldplay’s Head Full Of Vibrant Rosco Colours](https://spectrum.rosco.com/index.php/2017/04/coldplays-vibrant-rosco-colours?hsLang=en) ### Receive Email Alerts About New Spectrum Blog Posts! ### Categories [Architecture](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/architecture) [Dance](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/dance) [Entertainment Lighting](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/entertainment-lighting) [Film, Television and Broadcast](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/film-television-and-broadcast) [Photography](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/photography) [Rosco - The Company](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/rosco-the-company) [Scenic and Staging](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/scenic-and-staging) © 2022 Rosco Spectrum - [Home](https://spectrum.rosco.com/) - [About Spectrum](https://spectrum.rosco.com/rosco-spectrum-featured-products-3?hsLang=en) - [Featured Products](https://spectrum.rosco.com/rosco-spectrum-featured-products?hsLang=en) - [Rosco.com](https://us.rosco.com/en) - ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Tatiana Massano", "url" : "https://spectrum.rosco.com/author/tmassano" }, "dateModified" : "2022-11-24T03:11:07.208Z", "datePublished" : "2019-08-22T19:51:35.000Z", "headline" : "Projected Gobos Showcase \"Photosynthesis\" At San Francisco’s Conservatory Of Flowers", "image" : [ "https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/Photosynthesis-Gobo-blog-Feature2.jpg" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://spectrum.rosco.com/index.php/2019/08/projected-gobos-showcase-photosynthesis-at-san-franciscos-conservatory-of-flowers", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/ROSCO_WAL_H_RGB.png" }, "name" : "Rosco Laboratories" } } ```