This document discusses different types of lighting sources used in photography including natural light from the sun and moon as well as artificial lights. It describes the effects lighting can have such as highlighting subjects, conveying mood, and creating shadows. Various lighting styles like high-key, low-key, hard light, and soft light are defined. Basic portrait lighting techniques involving key, fill, and back lights are also covered. The document emphasizes that mastering lighting is an important photography skill and encourages taking sample shots to test lighting setups.

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2. An image is created with LIGHTS
“light makes photography. Embrace light.
Admire it. Love it. But above all, KNOWlight.
Know it for all you are worth, and you will
know the key to photography.”
Founder of Kodak,
George Eastman

3. Sources of lights:
NATURAL AND
AVAILABLE LIGHT
• Sunlight
• Moonlight
• Storm light
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
• Flash light
• Studio lighting
• Fresnel
• Flourescent
• Soft box

5. Effects of lighting:
• Highlight important objects by drawing our eyes to
them (guide our attention)
• Texture and shape
• Give different mood to the picture to deliver a
certain message
– Can make a character look mysterious by shading
some parts of their body
– Make the character look glamorous by using
3point lighting technique
– Highlight the emotion of the picture

6. Attached and cast shadow

7. Basic styles of lighting:
High-key
• Predominantly bright and
allows few dark areas or
shadows within the scene
• Features strong illumination
on the subject and often an
equally exposed
background
Low-key
• Enhances depth by using
contrasting tones of
highlights and shadow
• Only a few areas are lit at or
above key, resulting in more
shadow areas

10. Hard light
• Light directly from a source such
as the sun, traveling undisturbed
onto the subject being lit
• Highly directional
• Creates a relatively sharp &
straight shadow – very dramatic
Soft light
• Light which appears to “wrap
around” the contour of the
subject.
• Produces less or softer shadow
• Fills shadows and lowering
contrast

11. Soft light can be created
by:
• Bouncing the light
• Using diffusion materials
• Pulling the light away from the subject

12. Natural light: SUN

13. Substractive lighting
• in outdoor daylight shooting, we
may have too much light filling
the subject.
• Therefore, we often use a
technique called substractive
lighting where we use negative
fill to remove the extra light to
control shadows of varying
densities.

14. Key light: main light on a subject
Fill light: softens the hard edges of the key and balances
the light
Back light: light behind the subject creating separation
from the background (distance)

15. Artificial lights:

16. Artificial lights:

17. Artificial lights:

18. Portrait lighting technique:

19. Portrait lighting technique:

20. Portrait lighting technique:

21. • Mastering lighting techniques is one of the
most important part in photography. Get to
know and learn how to manipulate different
kinds of lights to your advantage.
• Always take sample shots. Adjust the lighting
based on the sample shots.
• You make the picture, not just simply take a
picture. Use lighting to create your picture.