List of lighting sources and its implementations to an image.
Directional
- Backlighting: Light comes from behind the subject making a luminous contour
- Overlighting: Light comes from above usually making the face and torso shaded in contrast
- Sidelighting: Light comes from the left or right side
- Underlighting: Light comes from below, typically to create a ominous effect
Types
- Bloom: Bright areas that blur with surrounding areas
- Spotlight: A cone-shaped light from above on a target
- Spotlight: A circle-shaped light on a target
- Light Rays (Sunbeam)
- Light Rays (Moonbeam)
- Light Rays (Underwater)
- Dim Lighting: For dimly lit posts
Light through gaps
- Crack Of Light: A small amount of light in a dark scene, usually from opening a door to a dark room
- Dappled Sunlight: Sunlight seen through the Shadow cast by leaves of a Tree
- Dappled Moonlight
- Window Shadow: Shadow cast by a Window
Light through objects
- Caustics: Light patterns on a surface formed by light traveling through a transparent material
- Caustics (Water)
- Caustics (Underwater)
- Dispersion (Optics): Rainbow-colored light formed when light passes through a transparent object like a Prism
- Refraction: Changing the angle of light when it passes through an object
- Refraction: A lens effect inverts the image through a Glass of Water
- Subsurface Scattering: Light visible through a solid object
Time of day lighting
Light sources
- Stage Lights: Lights of a Stage
- Sun
- Moon
- Glowstick
- Lamp
- Desk Lamp
- Lamppost
- Wall Lamp
- Torch
- Fire
- Embers
- Flashlight
- Lantern
- Oil Lamp
- Wooden Lantern
- Ceiling Light | (post #4418507)
- Chandelier | (post #1190295)
- Candlelight | (post #3782254)
Misc
- Muzzle Flash | (post #7581880)
- Headlight | (post #7627947)
- Floodlights
- Flare | (post #7246932)
- Ultraviolet Light | (post #3308935)
- Glowing Headgear | (post #4609650)
- Overexposure