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Photographic lighting

Photographic lighting refers to how a light source, artificial or natural, illuminates the scene or subject that is photographed; put simply, it is lighting in regards to photography. Photographers can manipulate the positioning and the quality of a light source to create visual effects, potentially changing aspects of the photograph such as clarity…

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Perceptual cause and effect

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The natural light baseline

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Creating natural-looking artificial lighting

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Basic lighting patterns

Perceptual cause and effect

The natural light baseline

Creating natural-looking artificial lighting

Three light setup

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Photographic lighting

Nodes54
Edges53
Triples12
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037037
Components1

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lighting light source natural shadows face artificial camera create photography clues fill subject scene sources also flash background key sun

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
clarityinstance ofpotentially changing aspects of the photograph0.80text
toneinstance ofpotentially changing aspects of the photograph0.80text
saturation to create an accurate rendition of the scene.Lighting determines exposureinstance ofpotentially changing aspects of the photograph0.80text
can be used to create effects such as low-keyinstance ofpotentially changing aspects of the photograph0.80text
high-key lightinginstance ofpotentially changing aspects of the photograph0.80text
both of which involve the contrast between darkerinstance ofpotentially changing aspects of the photograph0.80text
lighter elements in a sceneinstance ofpotentially changing aspects of the photograph0.80text
household incandescent lightinginstance ofsources0.80text
fluorescent lightinginstance ofsources0.80text
and sodium discharge street lighting produce a wide range of resultsinstance ofsources0.80text
require different correction if a subjectively neutral rendition of colors is required.A brightinstance ofsources0.80text
very brief photographic flash from a single positioninstance ofsources0.80text

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