low-key lighting

Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television.

He was also noted for his innovations with low-key lighting, which enhanced the film noir style.

Sometimes, as in low-key lighting, this is a deliberate effect, but shots intended to look more natural and less stylistic require a fill.

Visual elements included low-key lighting, striking use of light and shadow, and unusual camera placement.

Both films allowed lenses at times to distort faces in close-up, especially during low-key lighting sequences described above.

Low-key lighting often uses only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light or a simple reflector.

Eastwood is fond of low-key lighting and back-lighting to give his movies a "noir-ish" feel.

Low-key lighting schemes mark most noirs.

He placed the studio's directors on a quota system, and decreed a flat, low-key lighting style to make the sets look cheaper than they were.

In time, he became known for his glamorous lighting, with diffusers and low-key lighting in night sequences.

This use of much more shadow than light, soon one of the main techniques of low-key lighting, heavily influenced film noir.

The darkly atmospheric video is shot in black and white, and features intensively low-key lighting as well as special effects.

His cinematography and directorial style often features Dutch angles, a highly saturated color palette, and/or low-key lighting.

Low key as a term used in describing paintings or photographs is related to but not the same as low-key lighting in cinema or photography.

Silhouetting occurs when there is a lighting ratio of 16:1 or more; at lower ratios such as 8:1 the result is instead called low-key lighting.

His work draws comparisons with the American cinematographer Gordon Willis for his use of darkness and low-key lighting.

With its dark paneling, bookshelves and low-key lighting, the Barking Dog looks like a library with an up-to-date American menu.

With its low-key lighting and inventive and arresting angles, the work of Director of Photography Arthur Edeson is one of the film's great assets.

Low-key lighting and black drapes also disguised the absence of budget sufficient to afford a full set for the Brain Creatures seen in the episode 'The Velvet Web'.

The low-key lighting schemes of many classic film noirs are associated with stark light/dark contrasts and dramatic shadow patterning-a style known as chiaroscuro (a term adopted from Renaissance painting).

Low-key lighting (i.e. lighting in which most of the frame is dark) slowly began to be used for sinister scenes, but not in D. W. Griffith films.

The light might be natural, such as a sunset or an open doorway, a technique known as contre-jour or it might be contrived in a studio; see low-key lighting.

The most immediately striking aspect of "K-Pax," which opens nationally today (review, Page 8), is its delicate, low-key lighting style, realized by the director of photography, John Mathieson ("Gladiator").

Cool, crusty and unashamedly bohemian, the walls of this cavernous drinking joint are covered in graffiti while the low-key lighting will have you groping in your pockets for spare change to light up the suitably retro jukebox.

The sets and interiors, extravagant in Menichelli's earlier films, were reduced to a bare minimum, and the film used low-key lighting in a similar way to the German Expressionists, creating large areas of shadow within the set.