Three Rules of Lighting for Photography




The three important rules regarding the behavior of light. Use these rules to achieve the type of lighting we want, including the look of soft light. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE to this channel for more videos! Gear and recommendations below:
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38 responses to “Three Rules of Lighting for Photography”

  1. I watch on YT…"trillions" topics regarding about …lighting !!Yours, snapping the fingers !!!! Who give …negative, in my opinion, have NO neurones for "lighting" .I'm one of your …recently subscriber, and I recommend your channel to my friend ,to !!!!

  2. Ron
    I don't need to watch your excellently made video over and over. Yes, a soft box is not a point source. Light is behaving different from inverse square law because inverse square law is only for point sources.It's not because of light's duality. It has nothing to do with that in fact.

    If you get to within the distance of about 70% of the length of the light source then your luminance will not obey inverse square law. Usually this isn't useful. Sometimes it may be.

  3. Mark, replay the video, repeatedly if necessary until you understand rule number 1.
    In a way you are correct, light has a wave and particle duality, so if you look at it sufficiently magnified to see the wave, light zig-zags like a car going down a highway bouncing off guardrails on each side, but the highway is still straight and mostly we are not examining light at that scale in photography.
    Keep in mind a softbox is not a single point light source.

  4. Nice summary, I love it!
    Keep in mind rule 1 is a good one but doesn't work as you get close to a line or plane source. So getting close to a kino (Sp?) or large soft box you need other rules. You could just use a light meter.

  5. light is a wave. It's trajectory/path is known as a ray. It can be called a 'ray' of light because that is what it is, however, to be more precise, some scientists/mathematicians etc. will call it a wave.
    It is particulate because of it's visual form if photographed (the photons), however, these particulate things come in various wavelengths and i forgot how to finish the rest of this answer. Hope it helps, and that someone super intelligent finished the rest of your question!

  6. What is the difference between light waves and light rays?
    I'm confused because the frequency of visible light can be described as both particulate and wave form.
    Also, how does interference and diffraction play into these rules?
    Thank you for helping me to understand this.
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