Lighting- General Overview

 Here is a 3 point lighting tutorial :)

Things to remember: 

- You don't want to compete with your story, you want it to enhance it

Types of Lights 

Area Lights

• The larger you make an area light the softer your shadows are going to be
• Pressing T and dragging gives you another set of handles to place what you what the light to focus on

Color temperature

Exposure- Based on F-stops

Fill Lights are ROUGHLY 1/4 the intensity of the Key Light

Natural Lighting

Conveying time of day + weather

Sunny vs. Cloudy- More specular highlights when it is sunny than when it is overcast

DOF determines how much of your scene is in focus.