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Portrait Lighting Terms Beginners Need to Know in the Studio!
By John Gress
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 11 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2024
About this lesson
Portrait lighting terms beginners need to know in the studio: key, side, fill and rim light, high key and low key, and reflections.
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:53Key Light or Main Light
- 2:33Side Light
- 3:02FIll Light
- 3:37High Key Lighting
- 3:59Low Key Lighting
- 4:12Reflections
- 4:57Rim Light
- 5:22Kicker & Edge Light
- 6:25Background Light
- 7:46hair light
- 9:39Flags
- 10:01Recap
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