ABSTRACT
The four characteristics of light, quality (hard or soft), direction (frontal, side, back, underlit, top lit, etc.), source (available light, additional lights), and colour, can be manipulated by the lighting cameraman to achieve the precise requirements for a specific shot. The auto features on a camera are often unable to discriminate the priorities of a shot and must be overridden, so likewise, to simply accept the effects of a found lighting situation is to disregard the most powerful part of image making. Available or ‘found’ light is any combination of sunlight and/or artificial light that illuminates any potential location.
