Studio Lighting Workshop Vocab Sheet

High Key: Light and bright, many light and gray tones (more upbeat, youthful)
Low Key: Large, prominent areas of dark (somber, serious, needs more side and back lighting)
Soft Light: Diffused shadow edges, soft, barely visible shadows from large light sources
Hard Light: Shadows with sharply defined edges, high contrast
Family of Angles: The angles seen by a viewer that produce a direct reflection, determines where to place lights
Kicker Light: A light that adds extra illumination, "kicks up" brightness, about half brightness of main light
Main Light: Light that provides most of the illumination, single source
Soft Box: Diffuses light through material over a light
Reflector: Gold, silver or white cards that bounce light onto the subject to fill shadows
Fill Light: Extra lights that give about half illumination of main light, usually placed near camera
Hot Shoe Mount: The mount on top of a camera for a flash, or of the type
Strobe Light: Commonly used as studio lights, have 1200-4800 watt-seconds per power supply
Histogram: Graphs that represent the 256 values that constitute the gray tonal scale from the blackest black to the whitest white
Color Temperature: Measured in Kelvin, K, is the variation of color hotness or coolness
Light Absorber: A black object that reduces bounced light
Onamonapia: is this supposed to be onomatopoeia?? The camera shutter goes "click"??
Color Gels: Filter materials that can be used on lights to create different color tones
Umbrella: An umbrella that diffuses studio lights
"Snooted" Kicker: A small fill light with a snooter can make the might directional
Hot Light: Continuous lighting
Cold Lights: Electronic flash
Diffused Light: Softer light, where shadows are less hard due to large light sources and scattered light
Monolight: Single light source
Beauty Dish: Or softlight, a large metal reflector used for portraiture
Specular Light: Mirror image of the light source that produces them, can be avoided by not being in the family of angles. The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflectance
Barn Doors: Light modifiers that are fixed onto the front of the light source that can be moved and changed
Gobo: Anything that goes between the subject and the light source specifically to block part of the light
Incident Light Meter: Light that falls on the subject, either directly or indirectly
Fill Flash: A light that fills in shadows on a subject, not the main light