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 |