Light types and qualities

The Lighting continues in the Photography or when Film and TV (But also in the Stage Technology) To design a scene through the use of natural or artificial light apart. Your score is the Illumination.

The lights can be distinguished by several criteria:

    * (Technical) OriginSee also Natural light and Artificial light
    * Color: This can be achieved by Color temperature or, particularly in fluorescent lamps and gas discharge through the spectral Composition are described.
    * Duration of illuminationThe sun, moon, and fluorescent lamps provide a constant light (see Steady), Natural Lightning or photographic Flashlight illuminate the scene a short time and are thus able to freeze motion.
    * Hardness of the light: Pointwise and flat, but distant light sources provide a so-called hard light, which is characterized by high contrast and clearly discernible shadow. Former light (Softboxes, reflectors) are able to produce from hard light soft light. An overcast sky is thus a huge softbox for the nearly point-like sun. Similarly, extensive artificial light sources are available.

    * Spatial extent of light: A light source can illuminate only a delimited area with more or less sharp edges (spot) or the entire room.
    * Direction of light: As a frontal light as seen by the camera, Sidelight from left or right Backlight from the look of the camera, light from above and light from below.

# The guiding light. The viewing habits of the people have always been with the light situation an almost point-like light source (sun or moon) familiar. The classic illumination falls back on it and is also a dominant light that casts (often the only light in the scene) and shade. This is the guiding light. Often the scene towards the camera or from the left or right is lit above the camera. A guiding light from directly above the scene, causing deep shadows in the eye sockets, a light from below looks unusual and can also provide very dramatic, eerie scenes. This also applies to a back light as light guide. The guiding light may illuminate not only the scene in the center of the stationary objects and persons, it is the preferred means to draw the viewers attention on the essentials. The quality of light can be hard or soft.

# The brightening. Particularly hard as courtesy lights or run counter and side lights to high light contrasts, from the Density range the film or sensor can no longer be processed. Some subjects will also be flattered by lower contrasts (eg Beauty-Light in portrait photography). This is the task of lightening that illuminate the light from the guide less taken more points. This is a soft, light shade throwing well suited to guide the light to not take his dominance. As lightening, artificial light sources and reflectors are used.

# Effect of light (or edge, light hair, see also Highlight). This is mostly from direct light behind your subject that will help, for example, distinguish a person from the background (luster in hair). The light intensity is often high, the quality of light hard.

# Other light sources. For example, to illuminate the background, and can also be made with transmitted light through the background (see also Chamfer) Or to accentuate other parts of the subject

In the Mixture of light sources Note that these may differ in color temperature. If the resulting colors in the image are not desired, the light sources should have a uniform color temperature. This can be especially when lightening pictures in natural light or when the normal ambient lighting should continue to act to change the picture, and strong. Reflectors may provide better results than flash.

A excessive whitening can be perceived by the eye impression of the scene completely change in nature. For example, this would mean a comfortable Candlelight Dinners suppress with a strong flash to fully light the candles. Likewise, the viewer is expected that the sunlit world outside the window appears brighter than the interior of the room. (See also: Fill)

The Mixture of short bright light (flash) with the ambient light may in accordance with a long exposure time an impression of movement of moving parts of the image left on the otherwise static photo. It was only the flash on second curtain and thus just before the end of the exposure will be ignited by lightning in order to fix the frozen part of the movement in the direction of motion.

Different colors of light can by their Color contrast also be used as a design tool. As an example, the inclusion in a winter cabin in which the interior is bathed in warm light and the outside world from the cold-blue window appears, it is noted. The excessive lightening of the interior with a cold light in correspondence with our viewing habits might seem unnatural here.



Author:

PPTPhotography.net charlotte wedding photographer & wedding photographer charlotte, one of the finest charlotte Wedding Photographers. To know more visit http://www.pptphotography.net/