Assigned Roles: Lighting

High Key Lighting

High Key Lighting is very powerful and bright lighting and helps reduce the amount contrast. Also High Key lighting helps create the illusion of happiness.

3 Point Lighting

Three Point Lighting includes the following:

- Key Light

Key Lighting is a part of 3 Point Lighting. This is the strongest lighting out of the three. Also this part of the lighting normally has the most impact and is positioned at one side of the camera facing the character or subject.

- Fill Light

Fill Lighting is a part of 3 Point Lighting. This is the second part out of the 3. Also this part of lighting is softer than and not as powerful as the key lighting and is positioned on the opposite side of the key lighting. So there will be key and fill lighting either side of the camera.

- Back Light

Back Lighting is a part of 3 Point Lighting. This is the third part out of the 3. Also this part of lighting provides direct light from behind the character or subject and helps separate the character from his or hers surroundings. This is positioned behind and projects light from the rear. 

Back Lighting

Back lighting helps illuminates the character from the rear. Also it creates a silhouette and separates the surroundings from the character or subject.

Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro helps create the separation between light and dark areas.

Natural Lighting

Natural Lighting cannot be reproduced with the use of technology and is given off by the sun.

Artificial Lighting

Artificial Lighting is the opposite from natural lighting and uses technology and not the sun to create light. Artificial Lighting can be created from as simple as a table lamp.

Tungsten Lighting

Tungsten Lighting is very expensive to use and is used often by photographers when taking high quality professional photos.