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Motion Picture and Video Lighting, 4th Edition
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Motion Picture and Video Lighting, 4th Edition

by Blain Brown
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
11h 19m
English
Routledge
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08 controlling light

CREATING HARD LIGHT AND SOFT LIGHT

The most fundamental and consistently used way in which we control our lighting is by making it varying degrees of hard or soft. As we discussed in the last chapter, hard light is the natural output of any small source, such as a Fresnel light. As the source gets bigger, the light gets softer. For this reason, an LED light panel is softer, but not a great deal softer. Since creating light sources that are many feet across is impractical in most cases, the most frequently used methods are to bounce the light off a larger (usually white) surface, sometimes a white ceiling or wall can make a convenient bounce.

The other method is to aim the light through diffusion; we’ll look at several ...

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ISBN: 9781003811916