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Learn About Studio Lighting

Lighting is something you really cannot have too much of in a room. You can turn the lights off if you think it is too much, and just use lamps, or vice versa. However, you should have it if it is needed, and you will be glad that you do. Especially when you know all about studio lighting.

Studio lighting can be broken into two main categories. There is continuous light and flash light. Continuous light has two main advantages, yet it has many disadvantages, which we will touch on momentarily.

Continuous Studio Lighting

The benefits of using continuous studio lighting are:

-Continuous lighting is very inexpensive. It makes a great starting place for anyone who is starting out or on a small budget.

-With continuous light, you can see what the light 'is doing', meaning you can see where the highlights and shadows are. This makes adjusting continuous light a relatively easy task.

The primary disadvantages of continuous studio light are:

-Continuous light tends to produce much more heat than it does light.

-The light that continuous lighting produces is not balanced to daylight

All right, so what does this all mean in simple terms? The heat that is produced by a continuous light source can make both the photographer and models or actors very uncomfortable. Also, the light from a continuous light source tends to make subjects irises close down, which does not make attractive portraits.

Most of us have taken pictures in artificial lighting and ended up with yellow colored photos. To our eyes, the light from a tungsten bulb looks very white, but, in fact, it is quite a bit more toward the yellow range of the color spectrum than daylight is....

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