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Lighting: Really Important!

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

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Lighting: Really Important!

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  1. 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

  2. Light: 3 Characteristics • Quality: hard or soft, direct or diffused • Intensity: how bright or how dim • Color temperature: how red or blue

  3. Hard or Direct Lights: Fresnel Spotlight

  4. Fresnel Spotlight: used with barn doors Can be stand lights or hanging lights from grid

  5. Hard or Directional Light Reveals character

  6. Hard or Directional Light Reveals character

  7. Floodlights: Soft or diffused light Scoop Broad (lots of light for its size)

  8. Floodlights: Soft or diffused light Softlights (extremely diffused)

  9. Floodlights: Fluorescent Bank Cool, efficient, color corrected

  10. LED lights an array of semiconductors Very even, must be close to subject

  11. LED lights an array of semiconductors On camera light

  12. Soft or Diffused Light Glamour Photography

  13. Soft or Diffused Light Glamour Photography

  14. Control: Diffusionhard light to soft Umbrella Soft Box

  15. hard to softer less intensity Scrim Gel Diffusion

  16. Diffusionhard light to soft Flags or silks – from c stand

  17. Size of the instrument or the lamp • Dimmers • Scrims • Distance: Inverse square law Control: Intensity 3x as far = 1/9 the light 1/3 the distance = 9x light

  18. White Balance! • Gels on lights • Filters on lens • Instrument/Lamp choices Control: Color Temperature

  19. Falloff Fast falloff slow falloff

  20. Film Noir Fast Falloff

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