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Lighting Tips For Photography: Artificial Light!

By Jerry J. Jansen On August 2, 2009 No Comments

Artificial Light Photography is art.  Individuals will spend hours in museums and galleries analyzing a person’s photographs for the meaning.  Like painting photographs have a message, sometimes it will evoke sadness, happiness, a carefree attitude, and thought.  There are many techniques a budding photographer will learn to evoke the emotions they desire.  One such technique is using artificial lighting.  Artificial lighting is not always as fun and easy as sunlight, but you can use it to create some wonderful photographs once you know how.

Indoor lighting is often fluorescent and tungsten bulbs.  Tungsten bulbs are used by professional photographers, as “hot lights” because of the high temperature they produce.  In photography it is important to understand the temperature scale in relation to the colors they will produce.  A hot light will produce more red and reduce the blue.  Firelight and candle light though not artificial can be used in doors to create shadows and depth.

When using indoor lights, specifically artificial light you will need to understand exposure.  When you have

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