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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Lighting in Photography

In the world of photography, light is a very important element. Light is very useful to illuminate the object to be photographed, the ambience and the light also serves to give color and shape. Without light or if it will be bad light quality Similarly a bad influence for the images to be generated as specks of noise, image
less sharp and so on. To get optimal shooting results, then it is very important to considered is about lighting.

Things that should be considered in the lighting itself is:

1. Light intensity
The intensity of light is the strength or magnitude of the amount of light required for shooting purposes an object that can be obtained results still images high quality. Light intensity is also very influential to the contrast of the image the resulting, shades of color in the picture, until the fall of the shadows to form
a beautiful silhouette display. In addition, the intensity of the light also affects the brightness of the image that are too bright or too dark.

2. Light source
Source of light in photography could derive two types, namely:

 -   Natural light source (natural lights) is the light of the sun and moon
The light source of this nature can not be set according to our wishes, but instead we are must adjust to the light conditions of this nature.
 -  Artificial light sources (artificial lights) is created by the light source human beings for the purpose of photography in a special photo shoot for generating activities sharp photos. The light source in the form of light that built in cameras such as flash or indeed light from extras such as lights studio / flash or flash tungsten.

3. Color light
The color of the light effect on the impression of the mood in the resulting image. Color settings can cause different emotions and mood, a color can be describe a particular emotion such as white depicting formal impression and yellow which give the impression of a friendly and warm.

In photography, to get a certain color effects lighting needed a tool called a gel or a color filter. These gels or color filters usually placed in front of a light source to obtain particular color effects besides, Gel is also useful to balance color between the light source.

4. Direction of the light
Reading the proper direction of the light with very influential to the quality of photos produced.