Intro to Lighting- 3-Point Lighting

After this lesson, students will learn the basics of 3 point lighting and why it's so important when taking photos and shooting video!

Lighting helps create a clearer image and helps create a certain mood. Videographers and photographers want the viewer to feel a certain way, and lighting helps with creating that certain mood!

The main function of lighting is to light a subject and your surrounding areas.

In a 3-point lighting set up:

1. Key Light- Spotlight- Main light used on a subject

2. Fill Light- Floodlight- A softer throw of light- Used to help even out shadows created by key light, placed opposite side of key light

3. Back Light- Placed behind the subject, used to light hair and shoulders. Separates subject from background.

If you are filming or shooting photos in a studio set up, you may also encounter set lighting. These are lights that are used to creatively light the background set, wall, tv studio set up, ect...

A light plot is a diagram used which helps plan your lighting set up beforehand.