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Low key
A photograph that comprises predominantly of dark or monotone colours.
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Low Key Lighting In Art
Artists recognized the power of low key lighting long before photographers came around.
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Techniques Glossary Low key
A photograph that comprises predominantly of dark or monotone colours.
Low Key
Low Key is a lighting technique in which black is the controlling color of the image, and high level of contrast and the key light isn't strong, the fill light is important and shapes the contours and textures of a the subject.
Low Key Low key pictures emphasize the black or darker tones, mostly with hard high contrast lighting being used. To create contrast, a relatively small areas are usually brightly lit. Jump to Top Back to Previous Page
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LOW KEY - Describes a mostly dark image, with few highlights.
LUMINOSITY - the brightness of a light source.
Low key
Term describing a photograph in which the tones are mostly dark and there are few highlights.
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low key
a photograph or other image whose tonal range is mostly in the shadow regions.
Low Key: Describes an image that mainly consists of midtones and shadows.
LPI: Lines per inch. Measure of resolution for halftones.
Low Key
Lighting that results in predominantly gray to middle-black tones with few light areas. Tip: Use dark sets and wardrobes, hard lights, lots of flags, and don't let the lab or video engineer "save" you.
Low key
A dark image that is intentionally lacking in highlight detail.
LPI
Lines Per Inch. A measure of resolution, usually screen frequency in halftone.
Low key image with the majority of pixels to the left of center of the graph
High key image with the majority of the pixels to the right of center of the graph ...
Low key - photograph in which tones are predominantly dark and there are few highlights.
Lumen - unit of light intensity falling onto a surface.
Lumen second - unit to measure the total light output of a photographic source.
High key. Low key. You would think I was talking about playing a musical instrument when in fact I am talking photography. High-key lighting refers to lighting that eliminates shadows, while low-key lighting creates shadows .
-When a scene contains mostly dark tones or colors, it is low key (fig. 5-17). When the scene contains mostly light tones, it is high key (5-18). Low-key and high-key pictures convey mood and atmosphere.
The E-3's gradation setting produces images in low or high keys, it does so by modifying the tone curve as well as the exposure (around a third of a stop under for Low Key and a third of a stop over for High Key).
See last month’s article titled High Key/Low Key for more information. Spotlighting effects can be added to just the face that allow the rest of the light to quickly fall off. This draws attention to it.
A wide variety of other scene modes are present such as Silhouette, High Key, Low Key, Beach / Snow, Food, etc. which can be accessed by selecting Scene on the mode dial and rotating the command dial.
Wear clothes that reflect the colours and styles around you, but keep colours low key. Don’t hang all your gear around your neck on show, try to blend in.
Lossy Compression A reduction of image file size by disposing of unneeded data, resulting in a slight degradation of image quality. Low Key Refers to an image distinguished by overall dark tones.
Lens barrel: Housing for all the elements of the lens.
Long focus lens: Lenses with focal length greater than the diagonal of the film format it covers.
Low key: Pictures composed mainly of dark tones.
If the image is low contrast, you can also tell if it's low-key or high-key from the histogram. A low key image has details concentrated at the dark end of the scale. A high-key image has them concentrated at the light end.
 See also: Camera, Image, Light, Photograph, Photography
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