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cheat sheets for lighting

Well, as those of you who read my last couple of posts can guess, I'm not in New York - that darn ash cloud simply said access denied. So I'll wait, I'll wait until it feels safe and relaxed and THEN I'll jump on a plane and hurry to New York!

Yeah, I've spend my time good though. A few days ago I came across this absolutely fantastic site with 3 vital posts which I am now sharing with you guys out there.

First, here is a sheet showing how the angles of light affect your model

This chart shows the angle on the model and the direction as well (down means the flash shoots down on your model)

Found right here

The next one concerns light falloff which is a bit more tricky. The author of the original post does an excellent job in explaining it, and I suggest you visit it if you want a more in depth explanation. In short terms, it's about how light gets dimmer the farther away from its subject it gets - for instance, if you fire a flash directly in the face of a person, the nose will be brighter than the ears, not necessarily much, but often noticable. The further away you pull light source, the more even the light gets.

The other provides us with a sheet showing us the effect of how much lights falls off when you move the light source further away.

The final post is about how different reflectors work and how angles actually look like - a very handy tool in my opinion.

Hopefully this is somewhat useful to you guys as well.