Low-key lighting uses dim, hard lighting to accentuate shadows and create a high contrast between dark and light tones. It is used in horror, film noir, or dramatic films to create tension and ...

Explainer: film lighting Published: September 24, 2014 4:30pm EDT. Paul Ramaeker, University of Otago. Author ... This was hard lighting (itself increasingly common from the 1940s), ...

Having come from a theatrical lighting background before working in film, I’m no freshman when it comes to working with hard light. In fact, in spite of modern photographic trends, I find that hard ...

Although an extremely powerful light, the HMI’s beams were slightly diffused with its frosted glass lens. At a distance of 10 feet from the talent and pointed slightly camera left, this key source ...