ABSTRACT
Lighting allows the camera to record a quality image and is usually needed to increase or reduce depth of field. However, lighting is also a great manipulator of the audience. Many people assume that lighting requires a lot of equipment and a lot of power. Whatever the type of program being shot, there are basically three choices as far as lighting is concerned: shoot the scene with existing light; add some lights to the present lighting; and remove the existing lighting and bring in television lights. By lighting the scene or supplementing the existing lighting, the director has some control over the situation and a far better chance of achieving consistently high-quality pictures. While incandescent, tungsten, halogen, and fluorescent lighting is still used, LED lighting is rapidly taking over the television lighting market. A small portable light can be attached to the top of a video camera. Excessive lighting contrast produces burned-out highlights and detail-less lower tones.
