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The importance of eye light
From the course: Learning Video Lighting
The importance of eye light
- One important thing to always look for when lighting someone's face is whether the light is getting into their eyes. That bright little sparkle you see in the pupil of someone's eye is known as the eye light. Here we've set up a situation you might encounter on location. Mariana is lit by soft, fluorescent lights from above like you might encounter in a mall or a department store or an office. We can see her, but there's no light going into her eyes, and it's that tiny sparkle that connects the subject with the viewer, and what makes someone's image come alive. She's got plenty of illumination to be photographed, but just no eye light. But if we add this little tiny light right near the camera, it's not even enough to really change the character of the light on her face, but it reflects in her eyes and it makes her face come alive. You see? This is eye light, no eye light. Eye light, no eye light. Once I shot a movie for the Disney channel about a couple of kids who befriend a…
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