So now we're going to talk about soft light. Now Soft Light has a very specific effect on whatever it is you're trying to light. And when you look at something that is really nicely lit, a lot of times it will be lit using a soft light because it gives you really soft shadows and it really smooth things out. Whatever it is, you're lighting, it's really good for like facial features. And you'll notice this when you try recording in front of like a window, you'll get this nice lighting that you can't really replicate in the studio. And that's mostly because the light that you're using to illuminate the scene, you know the light is coming through the window.

It's going to be sunlight. And the sun during the day mostly acts as a hard light source. Now, indoors that's when the light bounces and then you'd get different types of effects and that's when you get that really soft light. Unless of course the sun is beaming straight through your window. But if you're getting general ambient light, you're going to get pretty soft shadows now If you want soft shadows, when you do step outside, you're going to have to wait to win. It's pretty cloudy out, so then the clouds would act as the diffuser for the sun.

So basically, in order to get this nice soft light, you would have to have a big light source. So if you're in a studio, you're going to need a very big like diffuser to kind of spread the light out to give you a nice soft look. Because Soft Light has this type of wrapping effect where you are lit from every angle, or that's how it appears. So you don't get any hard shadows. You get these really nice, clean, soft, you know, refined shadows. So that's just about it for this lesson.

Now let's move on to the next one.