Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - 1. What are the two types of light sources commonly used in photography? Describe the characteristics of their respective light sources?

1. What are the two types of light sources commonly used in photography? Describe the characteristics of their respective light sources?

The types of light can be divided into natural light and artificial light.

Natural light is dominated by sunlight.

Artificial light refers to the light emitted by artificial illuminators, such as incandescent lamps, flashlights and iodine tungsten lamp.

No matter natural light or artificial light, there are three basic characteristics: intensity, direction and color of light.

The color temperature of natural light is between 185 K and 27000 K; The color temperature value of artificial light is between 2300 k and 5600 K..