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Lighting Effects / Effects with Artificial Lighting

Cold/Warm: The feeling of coldness or warmth by using additional filters or doubling up on gels shall be created. Very blue means very cold, very red/orange means very hot.

Moon Light/Night time Light: By lowering the exposure slightly and adding a blue filter to the camera, Daytime seems like night. But, strictly need to avoid birds flying in the sky, any other lighting which should appear in shot, such as house or street lights.

Fire Light: To light a person's face who is looking at a fire, point a redhead with orange gel away from the subject at a large reflector which reflects the light back at the subject. Shake the reflector to simulate firelight.

Watching TV : To light a person's who is watching TV, shine a blue light at the subject and wave a piece of cloth or paper in front of the light to simulate flickering.

Rain effect: By using fan and light, rain effect out of window shall be created

Silhouette effect/shadow outline effect: Back light to the subject shall be crated Silhouette effect 

Also Lighting shall create the Water effect, Fire effect, Smoke, Strobe effect, disco light effect, thunder effect and Stars-moon/mirror ball effect.  

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