1. The Art of Light

2. Introduction to Lighting
Natural Lighting pictorial lighting
Hard light and soft light
Basic light sources

3. Naturalism and Pictorialism
Naturalism : Follow the logical position of light sources in a scene. This is often referred to as motivated lighting.
Pictorialism: allow the use of light angles that violated this logic, if they achieve a more pleasing picture as a result.

4. Naturalism Pictorialism

5. To Achieve the “Look”
Motivated Lighting: justify the logical light source

6. To Achieve the “Look”
Lighting Planes: to give the perception of depth

7. Direction of Light
The direction from which the light comes suggests the mood of the scene, the time of the day, and the typle of location

8. Direction of Light
It models the objects in the scene, bring out their shape and texture.

9. High Key Scene
Low Key Scene

10. Mixed Lighting Scene

11. Basic lighting sources
Key light: is the dominant source of light. It usually establishes character and mood of the shot.
Fill light: Fill light gives the appearance of ambient light and determines the mood by keeping shadows dark or by lightening them.
Back light: is designed to separate the actors from the background. This adds three-dimensionality to the picture.

12. Control the Available light
Identify principal light sources
Identify the Key, back and fill lights from a scene
How to light by positioning

13. Filters Color correction filters Neutral density filters
Effects filters

14. Color Correction Filters
Color correction filters are used when shooting tungsten-balanced film of doors or when using daylight balanced color film indoors.
85 filters:when shooting tungsten-balanced color film out of doors.
85(the most commonly used), 85B, 85C
80 filters:When using daylight-balanced color film indoors.

15. Neutral Density Filters
To cut down overall brightness and reduce all colors equally.
When to use ND filters
Most common used: ND 0.3, ND 0.6 and ND 0.9, need to increasing exposure (stops) in 1, 2 and 3 stops

16. Effects Filters Diffusion filters, Nets,
Ultraviolet (UV) filters: The filter most often used for cutting haze and slightly warming the scene is the Sky 1-A. If you don’t want to extra warmth of Skylight filter, Haze 1 and 2A can be used
Fog filter
Low contrast filters: produce less halation and less softening than fog filter. (Tiffen Ultra Contrast filter)
Polarizing filter: light striking an object radiates in all directions
Soft contrast filters
Graduated filters