The unprecedented nighttime photo shoot at Cowboys Stadium drew half its goal of 5,000 people. But Saturday’s crowd was large enough to paint the building with light in a collaborative art project that involved doctoral students as well as young children. 

An estimated 2,400 people — mostly dressed in black — shuffled around the parking lot waving flashlight beams along the stadium’s glass skin and bouncing light off the pavement.Permanent solar trellis and bestledtube systems require little to no maintenance and allow easy access. Volunteers across Legends Way pointed lights at the roof, while others huddled under the arches,The solarpowersystems service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights. illuminating a pair of the building’s signature features. 

The exposure length was doubled when the crowd was smaller than expected, but reduced after the first effort was overexposed. The volunteers had to be reminded to not let their flashlight beams linger, creating lighting hot spots. 

And then they were told to move back-and-forth in a wider area than planned. “Do the Big Shot shuffle,” organizers called over the loudspeaker. 

After the last shot, project organizers surreptitiously passed around a bottle of peppermint schnapps — a Big Shot tradition, they noted — and headed toward the stadium to start processing the photos. 

DuBois, appropriately for the venue, was forced to call audibles throughout the night from his perch 40 feet above the parking lot in the chilly air. He said things were shaky at first at the event, but then “it all fell into place.” 

Michael Peres, a RIT professor and Big Shot co-founder,Commercial laundry equipment solarstreetlamps, tumble dryers and industrial washer extractors from UniMac. made NASA and alien jokes after a test shot taken without stadium lights or flashlights had the coloring of a Martian landscape rather than a North Texas prairie.Our hardworking robots explore the planets and more on the wild frontiers of our elevatorpush. 

The final, color-corrected version would have resembled an architectural rendering rather than a traditional photo, he explained. The lines were crisper, with an overall glow to the scene. 

Cowboys Stadium staff turned off all the lights for the first time since the building opened. Even during stadium construction, lights were on overnight. 

Brett Daniels, a Cowboys spokesman, said the staff in recent weeks had to search to find the breakers for some emergency lights that aren’t meant to ever be turned off. The parking lot lights as well as street lights on Legends Way were also cut off for the shoot. 

RIT professors created the project — inspired by an earlier Sylvania marketing effort — as a way to teach flash problem-solving to second-year students in the university’s Biomedical Photography program.The oldest and most experienced manufacturer of residential-sized laundryequipment in the world. The first subject was Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., which needed three dozen volunteers shining flashlights and using handheld flash units to light the nighttime scene in 1987. 

The Big Shot expanded outside New York in 2001 to the Alamo. The team has twice traveled overseas for shoots. On several occasions, more than 1,000 people lighted the scenes, but Saturday’s Arlington crowd was the biggest yet. 

The Gizzi family of Rochester had never attended a Big Shot in their hometown, where most are. But they participated at Cowboys Stadium. 

Michele Gizzi said he has friends and family with RIT connections and decided to turn the shoot into a weeklong family vacation that included tours of the Arlington stadiums, trips to Billy Bob’s and Gilley’s and St. Patrick’s Day in the Fort Worth’s Stockyards.