Lighting techniques

The term photography is a combination of two Greek words phos (light) and graphe (a line or figure). So the factors of light plays an important role in photography.A photo will look beautiful if you get a pretty good light. All we do in setting aperture, shutter speed and ISO is actually referring to the effort to get enough light.Light such as what to expect in a shooting actually depends on what impression you want generated and how the expected composition of light and shadow in the photo.To start, to be aware of light are:

1. Intensity, how strong the light. A very strong light will create a clear image (harsh) while the weak light that will cause the soft shadows (soft). In the shooting outside the room, natural light (sun) will be available from the rising of the sun to dusk , while light with high intensity will be obtained at 9:00 a.m. to 15:00.
2. Direction of light, this will berpenguh on metering and composition hilight and shadow on the object. The direction of the light coming clearly will affect the direction and size of the shadow. At the photo shoot models, the direction of the light also affect the expression of the model.
3. Spectrum, or the number of 'color' that is contained in the light. Light yellowish-white sunlight is actually a combination of many colors of the spectrum, some of whom you may remember as mejikuhibniu rainbow range of colors, but actually the sunlight spectrum is wider than that.

The source of lighting in photography can be divided into:

1. Available Light (ambient), the light that exists or is available at the time of shooting, whether in the form of natural light (sunlight) or artificial light such as lamps or candles that are not reserved for the purpose of shooting.
2. Artificial light, ie light that deliberately held for the purpose of shooting. This type of lighting distinguished into 2 types, namely:

• Continuous source, namely the continuous light source is lit, such as spot lights (light studio)
•  Uncontinuous source, namely a light source that lights up only for a moment while shooting, usually a flash

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