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  2. Light characteristic - Wikipedia

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    An occulting light is a rhythmic light in which the duration of light in each period is longer than the total duration of darkness. In other words, it is the opposite to a flashing light where the total duration of darkness is longer than the duration of light. It has the appearance of flashing off, rather than flashing on.

  3. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    The key light is usually the first and most important light to be considered when staging a scene. Its purpose is to highlight the form and dimension of the subject; omitting the key light can result in a silhouette effect. A diagram of a standard three-point lighting set-up, consisting of a key light, back light, and fill light Kuleshov effect

  4. Glossary of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    A-type star In the Harvard spectral classification system, a class of main-sequence star having spectra dominated by Balmer absorption lines of hydrogen. Stars of spectral class A are typically blue-white or white in color, measure between 1.4 and 2.1 times the mass of the Sun, and have surface temperatures of 7,600–10,000 kelvin.

  5. Camera obscura - Wikipedia

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    Light enters a dark box through a small hole and creates an inverted image on the wall opposite the hole. [ 27 ] Middle Eastern physicist Ibn al-Haytham (known in the West by the Latinised Alhazen) (965–1040) extensively studied the camera obscura phenomenon in the early 11th century.

  6. Alpenglow - Wikipedia

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    Solar ray 1 is the lowest from the Sun – the Sun is set. Solar ray 2 is reflected in the (snow) clouds to the observer. Alpenglow (from German: Alpenglühen, lit. 'Alps glow'; Italian: enrosadira) is an optical phenomenon that appears as a horizontal reddish glow near the horizon opposite to the Sun when the solar disk is just below the horizon.

  7. Portrait photography - Wikipedia

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    The fill light, also known as the secondary main light, is typically placed opposite the key light. For example, if the key light is placed 30 degrees camera-left, the fill light will be placed 30 degrees camera-right. The purpose of a fill light is to combat strong shadows created by the main light. Intensity of the fill light may be equal to ...

  8. Cameo lighting - Wikipedia

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    Cameo lighting derives its name from the art form in which a light relief figure is set against a darker background. It helps focus on the subject and not its environment. [1] Cameo lighting can be used with a fill light, which reduces its starkness. [2] It is the opposite of a silhouette, [3] another type of chiaroscuro lighting. [4]

  9. Gegenschein - Wikipedia

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    Gegenschein is distinguished from zodiacal light by its high angle of reflection of the incident sunlight on the dust particles. It forms a slightly brighter elliptical spot of 8–10° across directly opposite the Sun within the dimmer band of zodiacal light and zodiac constellation. [ 2 ]