Chapter FourLighting Your Shots: Not Just What You See, but How You See It

DOI: 10.4324/9781003257356-4

  • Light as an Element of Composition

  • Light as Energy

  • Color Temperature

  • Color Balance of Your Camera

  • Natural and Artificial Lighting

  • Quantity of Light: Sensitivity and Exposure

  • Quality of Light: Hard versus Soft

  • Image Contrast

  • Image Color

  • Basic Character Lighting: The Three-Point Lighting Method

  • Motivated Lighting: Angle of Incidence

  • Set and Location Lighting

  • Controlling Light: Basic Tools and Techniques

Unless you are using specialty cameras such as night vision, thermal, or infrared, you will need to illuminate your subjects, sets, and locations to create a usable video image. Light allows us and our cameras to “see” and it will allow you, ...

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