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Light
> Characteristics > Hard vs Soft
Look
at your shadow right now. Are you lit with soft light
or hard light? Generally, humans look better when lit
with soft light. Your high school yearbook picture was
shot using soft light, for example.
But
soft light has a disadvantage. It's harder to control.
That is, soft light is spread out--it doesn't travel
in a narrow beam. As a result, soft light often spills
into places where you may not want it. So we use both
hard and soft light in television and film production:
hard because it is easier to control and direct; and
soft light because is often produces a more appealing
image.
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