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PHG 211 STUDIO LIGHTING

ND2 level19 topics

PHG 211 covers 19 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Hand-held light meter
  2. Creative light control
  3. Contrast control with lights and reflectors
  4. Soft and hard lighting
  5. Image lighting analysis
  6. Styles of lighting
  7. High-key and low-key portraits
  8. Still-life lighting with flash, tungsten and cold light
  9. Hand-held light meters
  10. Studio light sources
  11. Advantages and disadvantages of lighting
  12. Mixing flash with daylight
  13. Mixing flash with continuous light
  14. Painting with light
  15. Colour control with gels
  16. Contrast control in flash photography
  17. Reflectors and light shapers
  18. Lighting style analysis and signature
  19. Still life lighting with flash, tungsten and cold light

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Hand-held light meter

A hand‑held light meter is a portable device that measures the intensity of light in a scene and displays the result as a value that can be used to set camera exposure. Mastering its operation—reading the meter, choosing the correct mode, and interpreting the reading—is essential for achieving accurate exposure in studio lighting.

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