| A | B |
| Daylight | 5600 degrees kelvin (Blue) |
| Tungsten | 3200 degrees kelvin (not flourescent/yellow) |
| Hard | direct light |
| soft | diffused light |
| High Key lighting | bright, even lighting |
| Low Key lighting | uneven lighting |
| Shadow | absence of light |
| contrast | difference in lighting |
| frontal light | manates either from behind the camera or from the camera itself |
| side lighting | light that falls on a subject at roughly ninety degrees to the camera |
| high/low angle (eliminating shadows) | opposite (motivated lighting) angled |
| 3-point lighing | creates shadows under eyes, noses, chin. Angled down. |
| key light | brightest light |
| fill light | opposite of Key Light; fills in shadows |
| back light | light behind the subject; gives off a glow |
| cross-key lighting | for 2-person, interview-type set-ups |
| set light | light up set; not characters |