Lighting 101: Quality of Light

This is our first installment of our Lighting 101 series, where Lauren walks us through an important concept in film lighting: the quality of your light-- i.e. how hard or soft your light is.

In this video we cover the differences between hard and soft light, how the size and distance of your source affect the quality of your light, how to create hard and soft light using those concepts, and what diffusion actually does! Not only that, we'll tell you how to apply these concepts to your own lighting at home.

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For those interested, the lights used were:

HARD LIGHT:
800 Joleko with 50 degree barrel

SOFT LIGHT:
Two 4' 4Bank Kinos stacked on top of each other

DIFFUSION SECTION:
250 Diffusion Gel hand-held in front of the Joleko
Astra 1x1 Bicolor Litepanel, softbox added
Sola 6 Litepanel Daylight Fresnel, bounced into large styrofoam bounce card
Inca 12 Litepanel Tungsten Fresnel, shot throught 8x8' silk on frame

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