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What are the types of photographic light, and what are their advantages and disadvantages?

There are several categories of light in photography:

1, light itself can be divided into soft light and hard light. Strong light refers to direct light, and soft light refers to indirect light;

2. From the function of light, it can be divided into main light and auxiliary light. The main light illuminates the theme and the auxiliary light illuminates the shadow;

3. According to the light and the subject, it can be divided into forward light and backward light. The past light irradiated by photographic equipment is forward light, and vice versa;

4. As far as light source is concerned, it can be divided into natural light and artificial light.

Photography is an image art, which pursues intuition in the use of light; Too much attachment to the classification of light by words will affect the use of light.