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Lighting: Really Important!
Must be able to see subject – what it looks like and where it is in relation to other objects
Allows you to create a mood and flatter your subject
Light: 3 Characteristics
Quality: hard or soft, direct or diffused
Intensity: how bright or how dim
Color temperature: how red or blue
Hard or Direct Lights: Fresnel
Spotlight
Fresnel Spotlight: used with barn
doors
Can be stand lights or hanging lights from grid
Hard or Directional Light
Reveals character
Hard or Directional Light
Reveals character
Floodlights: Soft or diffused
light
Scoop Broad (lots of
light for its size)
Floodlights: Soft or diffused
light
Softlights
(extremely diffused)
Floodlights: Fluorescent Bank
Cool, efficient, color corrected
LED lights an array of
semiconductors
Very even, must be close to subject
LED lights an array of
semiconductors
On camera light
Soft or Diffused Light
GlamourPhotography
Soft or Diffused Light
GlamourPhotography
Control: Diffusionhard light to soft
Umbrella Soft Box
less intensity
Scrim Gel Diffusion
hard to softer
Diffusionhard light to soft
Flags or silks – from c stand
Control: Intensity
3x as far = 1/9 the light
1/3 the distance = 9x light
• Size of the instrument or the lamp
• Dimmers• Scrims• Distance: Inverse
square law
Control: Color Temperature
• White Balance!• Gels on lights• Filters on lens• Instrument/Lamp
choices
Falloff
Fast falloff slow falloff
Film Noir Fast Falloff
