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) light for its size)
Floodlights: Soft or diffused light Softlights (extremely diffused) (extremely diffused)
Floodlights: Fluorescent Bank Cool, efficient, color corrected Cool, efficient, color corrected
LED lights an array of semiconductors Very even, must be close to subject Very even, must be close to subject
LED lights an array of semiconductors On camera light On camera light
Soft or Diffused Light Glamour Photography
Soft or Diffused Light Glamour Photography
Control: Diffusion hard light to soft Umbrella Soft Box
less intensity less intensity Scrim Gel Diffusion Scrim Gel Diffusion hard to softer
Diffusion hard light to soft Flags or silks – from c stand
Control: Intensity 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 Falloff Fast falloff slow falloff
Film Noir Fast Falloff Film Noir Fast Falloff