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Lighting characteristics of lighting equipment in artificial light studio

Broadly speaking, the lighting characteristics of lighting equipment can be divided into directional lighting, scattering lighting and intermediate lighting. Directional lighting is a concentrated projection, which can be used to produce strong highlights and well-defined shadow areas. In contrast, the scattered light is softer, the brightness of the highlight area is slightly darker, and the outline of the shadow area is not clear.

Let's discuss how to use different types of home studio lights to create non-sales lighting effects. Compared with spotlights, floodlights emit a wider beam, the brightness of high-light areas is slightly weaker, the definition of shadow areas is slightly lower, and the color tone is not too dark.

When you shoot portraits or still lifes in the studio, it is usually more satisfying to use floodlights than rigid and intense spotlights. Therefore, floodlight becomes the main equipment for indoor photography, and spotlight is the supplement of floodlight. Using reflective umbrella can get softer and less directional light than floodlight. The method is to shoot the light upward into the reflective umbrella, and then the reflective umbrella reflects the light to the subject. The light source can be selected at will, such as floodlight, spotlight or flash. In any case, a wide reflective umbrella can always produce a soft and satisfactory effect, so it has always been favored by many photographers. But the disadvantage of using a wide beam is that you can't control it as accurately as you control a narrow beam. Through the study of this lesson, you will learn to use all kinds of suitable light sources. On this basis, you can choose the corresponding lighting equipment according to different shooting scenes.

In the next unit, we will talk about portrait photography in detail, or we will talk about reflective umbrellas for photography. At this time, you may find that reflective umbrella lighting is most suitable for indoor portrait photography. But when shooting still life and other subjects, the directionality of light is very important. As mentioned in this lesson, the best special lighting effect can often be obtained by using ordinary spotlights and floodlights.