A special type of lighting is light reflected consciously or accidentally from surfaces close to the photographed object. We call them residual light. It should not be underestimated. …
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Basic and additional lighting
With any lighting system, realized with one or more light sources, one of them is the principal light, it's light, which it is tasked with …
Shiny items
When photographing shiny objects, like for example. metal, glass, high gloss photographic images (reproduction), their surface reflects the entire surroundings, including the photographer, camera …
peak light
The already described chiaroscuro is created on matte surfaces. Light reflected from semi-matte surfaces behaves differently. When the surface of the illuminated object is not completely dull, but …
Own penumbra
SEMI-SHADE
The quantitative brightness of the light falling on the surface of an object depends on four factors, namely:
1. brightness of the light source,
2. number of light sources,
3. …
Shadow formation
So items, especially spatial, cause shadows, lights and shadows. Shadows, when properly lit, appear on the objects that create them, relative to other items …
The surface of the item
The surface of the item – The type of lighting depends on the degree and nature of the gloss of the photographed surface, these features result from the microstructure of the surface, with its smoothness, Very …
Light diffusion
The degree of light diffusion depends on the type of lighting device, so from the light source, reflectors, relative to the scattering veil, and the distance of the illuminating tool from …
Chiaroscuro optics
CHIAROSCURO
Chiaroscuro optics discusses physical principles and laws, conditions for the formation of chiaroscuro. Without understanding these issues, the photographer illuminates the object photographed only by the method of successful and unsuccessful trials.…