Photography Mood Lighting

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni, and I'm going to be talking about photography mood lighting. Now, one way that you can incorporate mood lighting into an image that you want to make is with natural light. I think that mood lighting with natural light is one of the easiest ways to do it. Now, there are certain types of day where the lighting is actually a lot nicer, earlier in the morning or later in the afternoon. I tend to really enjoy shooting later in the afternoon, and I can use that type of light to create a certain mood; almost a mood of warmth, of nostalgia, of the sun going down, of just not quite dark but there's still a little bit of light left. And it really does give a certain effect to the imagery that you're trying to create. You can also do this artificially with strobes. You can adjust the power of your strobe. You can adjust the gels, a grid, a snoot. This can give a certain mood; I like to call it flavor of what you're photographing. And a lot of times it depends on your subject matter. If you're creating something that looks very romantic, or something again, that looks nostalgic, or even something that can potentially look futuristic these are the types of techniques that you can use with your lighting to create something. And a lot of times, whether it's me photographing a person, an event I try to think well okay, what kind of lighting is really gonna', is going to work with this. Sometimes it's very straightforward directional flash. It could be strobes. And that is how you would use mood lighting to create an image."