Oct 14, 2004, 21:58
Rim Light - Basically creates a rim around your subject seperating it from the background, I like rim lighting directly behind the subject that spills over much like you see when you can see a glow behind their hair.
Barn Doors - Much like what you see on stage lighting, one or two sets of panels that open and close to control your lighting direction and spill.
Soft Box - A large rectangular panel with a hole in the back to poke your light through, covered in a single or double layer of diffusing white material, they also come in different shapes and sizes such as the strip light I use, it gives a very soft light hence the "soft" part of the name.
Snoot - Erm a cone shaped device that mounts on the front of the light, you can alter the level of effect it has, basically a fairly clean spot, used in combo with honeycombs and other grids for hairlights
Honeycomb - Mentioned above, named for the shape of the cells that affect the lighting, its primarily used to give harder light with interesting shadows, combined with different angular grids it can give some quite speccy results.
Hope that helps, time for lunch then I'm off to the Hot Rod show to shoot some cars before the people turn up tomorrow.
Ciao!
Barn Doors - Much like what you see on stage lighting, one or two sets of panels that open and close to control your lighting direction and spill.
Soft Box - A large rectangular panel with a hole in the back to poke your light through, covered in a single or double layer of diffusing white material, they also come in different shapes and sizes such as the strip light I use, it gives a very soft light hence the "soft" part of the name.
Snoot - Erm a cone shaped device that mounts on the front of the light, you can alter the level of effect it has, basically a fairly clean spot, used in combo with honeycombs and other grids for hairlights
Honeycomb - Mentioned above, named for the shape of the cells that affect the lighting, its primarily used to give harder light with interesting shadows, combined with different angular grids it can give some quite speccy results.
Hope that helps, time for lunch then I'm off to the Hot Rod show to shoot some cars before the people turn up tomorrow.
Ciao!