Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Lighting

LIGHT
Intensity
Quality (hard, soft)
Direction (from the front, side, above)
Contrast (distinction between your brightest light and your darkest light)
Temperature (Color)
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Concentration (Spot / Flood)



Not a bulb..it's a lamp.


1. Key Light
The most important light, the anchor light, the light on which the exposure is based.

2. Fill Light
The light used to "fill in" shadows, or reduce the lighting ratio, by definition no brighter than the key.

3. Backlight
A light that illuminates the subject from roughly the opposite side of the subject from the camera. Sometimes referred to as a hair light.

• Kicker
Accent the edge of an object ##

• Background Light