Visual lighting database

Find setups by subject, gear, and production scale.

Read 104 lighting setups the way a photographer does: the photograph, the light map, the modifier logic, and the mood vocabulary in one scan.

Woman with waved dark hair and deep red lips in a wool coat over a cream collar, hard side light from camera-left on a dark textured wall.
DramaticCinematicDark

Featured setup

Film Noir Fresnel

One gridded Fresnel, hard shadow, a set dropped deep into shadow. Pure cinema tension.

Fresnel

Lighting map

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camerasubject
Light count1 Light
Contrast8:1
QualityHard Light / Specular / Gridded
EnvironmentStudio / Dark Background

Visual atlas

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