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) light for its size)

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

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

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

11. LED lights an array of semiconductors On camera light On camera light

12. Soft or Diffused Light Glamour Photography

13. Soft or Diffused Light Glamour Photography

14. Control: Diffusion hard light to soft Umbrella Soft Box

15. less intensity less intensity Scrim Gel Diffusion Scrim Gel Diffusion hard to softer

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

17. 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

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

19. Falloff Falloff Fast falloff slow falloff

20. Film Noir Fast Falloff Film Noir Fast Falloff