Studio Lighting Techniques Flashcards

Flashcards based on lecture notes about studio lighting techniques.

Which basic form best illustrates an object with a sharply delineated highlight and shaded side?

Cube

To show color in its most intense state, you would use what kind of light?

Front Light

If your meter reads f4 at 1/125, and you add 3 stops of light, what's the new exposure?

f11

In the context of lighting, the camera is positioned at what o'clock?

6 O'Clock

What three things determine the effect of the main light on an object?

The subject, the viewer, the light

In the field of lighting, what do barndoors do?

Shape or block light

What type of lighting is light coming from behind the subject?

Back Light

How can you increase the size of the light source without using transmission?

Bounce it off a wall or ceiling

If lighting an object with a 750 through diffusion, what's the light source?

The diffusion panel

If current exposure is f16 at 1/250, and it drops 3 ½ stops, what is the new exposure?

f4.5

What appears between the specular highlight and the diffuse highlight?

The specular edge transfer

What are scrims?

Tools used to modify light

True or False: A cast shadow is not part of the Law of Light.

False

Light coming from the front of the object is called?

Front light

Light coming from the side of the object is called?

Side light