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Why are the lights used in many cinemas yellow? What role does it play?

The lamp used in the studio is a modeling lamp.

The reason for yellow: The studio is generally dim and the light is not good.

The role of the yellow light: it illuminates the model. ?

In fact, studio lights are composed of high-power flash lights and modeling lights. The flash tube is generally ring-shaped, and there is a modeling light interface in the center of the ring, such as quartz lamp and incandescent lamp. When the flash is not used, the modeling lamp can also be used as the lighting source for shooting.

Extended data

First, the advantages of film and television lights:

1, it is the first time for most photographers to shoot in natural light. There are not many opportunities to use flash except at night and fill the light. Even digital SLR users, equipped with professional external flash is not very common.

2. Studio lighting photography is a completely different thing. In the dark studio, almost all the light sources come from flashlights in several studios. The direction, color and brightness of the light are completely in your own hands, but the photos taken are more gorgeous than those in natural light.

Second, the difference in effect between studio flash and ordinary external flash:

The external flash of the camera is used to shoot the object directly. Although it is controlled by TTL, the overall feeling is very flat, stiff, without layering, and the shadow part is thick, forming an ugly shape on the face. Three studio lights are used to outline the characters, and the three-dimensional sense of the subject is very obvious.

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