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PRONUNCIATION OF FILL LIGHT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FILL LIGHT

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Fill light is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FILL LIGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fill light

Fill light

In television, film, stage, or photographic lighting, a fill light may be used to reduce the contrast of a scene to match the dynamic range of the recording media and record the same amount of detail typically seen by eye in average lighting and considered normal. From that baseline of normality using more or less fill will make shadows seem lighter or darker than normal which will cause the viewer to react differently, by inferring both environmental and mood clues from the tone of the shadows. Natural skylight fill is omni-directional and diffuse, with lower rate of inverse-square fall-off than artificial sources. A common artificial lighting strategy which creates an overall appearance similar to natural fill places the fill light on the lens axis so it will appear to cast few if any shadows from the point of view of the camera, which allows the key light which overlaps it to create the illusion of 3D in a 2D photo with the same single source patterns typically seen with natural lighting where the sun acts as key light and the skylight as fill.

Definition of fill light in the English dictionary

The definition of fill light in the dictionary is a light that supplements the key light without changing its character, used esp to lighten shadows.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FILL LIGHT

fill
fill away
fill her tins
fill in
fill out
fill the bill
fill up
fill your boots
fill-in
fill-up
fillable
fillagree
fille
fille de joie
filled
filled gold
filler
filler cap
filler metal
filles de joie

WORDS THAT END LIKE FILL LIGHT

back-up light
backlight
bright
come to light
daylight
delight
flashlight
flight
green light
headlight
highlight
in mid-flight
light
moonlight
red light
slight
spotlight
starlight
sunlight
the spotlight
twilight

Synonyms and antonyms of fill light in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fill light» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FILL LIGHT

Find out the translation of fill light to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fill light from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fill light» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

补光灯
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

luz de relleno
570 millions of speakers

English

fill light
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रकाश भरें
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ملء ضوء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заполняющий свет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

luz de preenchimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আলো ভরাও
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

remplir lumière
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengisi cahaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Licht füllen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

補助光
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빛을 채우기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Isi lampu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điền vào ánh sáng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒளி நிரப்பவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रकाश भरवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dolum ışığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

luce di riempimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

światło wypełnić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заповнює світло
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

umple de lumină
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συμπληρώστε το φως
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vul die lig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fylla ljus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fylle lys
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fill light

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FILL LIGHT»

Discover the use of fill light in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fill light and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Portrait Photographer's Handbook
White Background Key Light Fill Light Camera Diffusion Panel Camera Diffused Key Light 1 Unit of PHI Light 0 Units of Key Light Subject 1 Unit of Fin Light 2 Units of Key Light Key Light-One Stop Brighter Than Fin Light Camera HIGH-KEY  ...
Bill Hurter, 2007
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LIGHTWAVE V9 LIGHTING (W/CD)
There it is — the fill light. Fill light does two main things. Most obviously, it illuminates areas that are shadowed from the key light. It also usually illuminates all the areas that are lit by the key light, or at least some of them where the key light and ...
Nicholas Boughen, 2010
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The Art of Bridal Portrait Photography: Techniques for ...
The fill light is usually a large light source, such as an umbrella with no specularity or a white wall. I often use a White Lightning 1200 with the silver ring attached and bounced into a 4' x 8' white Styrofoam board. In other cases, I also like to ...
Marty Seefer, 2001
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Lighting for Video
Fill light is like a condiment, to be added with discretion Positioning the fill light Fill light or filler (fill-in) is too often used casually, overdone, or even ignored. In video/TV studios, soft light is often hung, rather than supported on lighting stands.
Gerald Millerson, 2013
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David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Lighting
The fill light is usually the secondmost powerful light used to illuminate a portrait. Fill light lightens the shadows cast by the main light, as you can see in Figure 5.12. Fill lights are usually positioned on the opposite side of the camera from the  ...
David D. Busch, 2009
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Lighting for TV and Film
I Significance Why are you introducing fill light? 0 Is it to avoid the lop-sided effect of an unfilled offset key? 0 Is it to control the density of shading, and build up a three-dimensional effect? 0 Is it to make all information in the shaded area clearly  ...
Gerald Millerson, 1999
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Photo 1: An Introduction to the Art of Photography
units of light (key plus fill) are striking one side of the face, and 1 unit of light (fill light only) is striking the other side of the face. Therefore, you have a 3:1 lighting ratio. Your model's face will be slightly lighter on the side facing the key light.
Katie Stern, 2011
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Sculpting with Light: Techniques for Portrait Photographers
With my flash meter pointing toward the main light source and the fill light turned off, I recorded an exposure of f/ 8, or one stop brighter than the fill light. Now, let's calculate the lighting ratio. To do this, we consider the difference between the ...
Allison Earnest, 2008
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Light Science and Magic 4/e: An Introduction to Photographic ...
If we want to keep the main light farther from the camera, however, we need some kind of fill light. Photographers commonly use a fill light that gives the subject about half as much illumination as the main light, but this guideline is by no means ...
Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua, 2013
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Existing Light Techniques for Wedding and Portrait Photography
A reflector with a mirrored or silver surface works best. Fill Light. The light source that makes the "shadow side" of things visible is called the fill light. The fill light is defined as a secondary light source because it does not create visible shadows.
Bill Hurter, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FILL LIGHT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fill light is used in the context of the following news items.
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How To Improve Your Photos And Videos With Affordable Lighting
Fill Light: Hits the subject at any angles that the key light doesn't in order to fill in some shadows on the subject. If you had the key light hitting ... «Lifehacker Australia, Jul 15»
2
Firmware Friday makes Sony A6000, A7-series faster; Big updates …
Corrected the phenomenon that it occasionally develops corrupted image data when the X3 Fill Light function is used. Corrected the ... «imaging resource, Jun 15»
3
Camera Work: Evolutionary Moments in Photography.
We could get the shadows back and they looked great now but only by increasing the exposure to make up for the “fill light” that the lens flare ... «Firedoglake, Jun 15»
4
Bob Leddy: Violence amidst beauty and stately homes
Therefore, such a sensitive eye did not require enhancement by artificial fill light, while draping each shot in a painterly, sepia-toned glow. «The Providence Journal, Jun 15»
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Camera Work: Light
The right side is the version with the fill light from the porch fixture. The daylight is from an overcast sky, which, incidentally is blue, compared to ... «Firedoglake, May 15»
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What We Learned During Ava DuVernay's Tribeca Chat with Q-Tip
To do that, you can't be giving them an extra fill light.” DuVernay doesn't deal in compromise. Asked by Q-Tip if she could adjust her vision to ... «Styleite, Apr 15»
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8 Essential Steps to Perfect Exposure - The Knowledge Any …
Lighting ratio is most often considered the ratio between key light (creating your highlights) and fill light (filling in the shadows). This ratio is ... «cinema5D news, Mar 15»
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The Connectors: Staffing companies bridge the employment divide
Until then, the agency had primarily served companies looking to fill light industrial and sales positions. Krist also pushed to establish the DBA ... «BizTimes.com, Mar 15»
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Profoto B2: The World's First Off-Camera Flash That Can Also Be …
“Use it as a subtle fill light. Or crank up the power and take full control of the ambient light. Connect one or two flash heads. Use only the B2. «PetaPixel, Mar 15»
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Use This Lightroom 'Secret Slider' Trick for Extreme Shadow Recovery
Kloskowski writes that Lightroom 5 did away with the “Fill Light” slider that previously existed and replaced it with a less powerful “Shadow” ... «PetaPixel, Feb 15»

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