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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Overview | |
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| The need for lighting on location | |
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| Lighting basics | |
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| Psychology of perception | |
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| Light units | |
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| Inverse square law - Nature's law | |
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| Cosine law - or you don't get something for nothing! | |
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| Reflection of light - direct/diffuse | |
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| Reflection of light - glare reflection | |
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| Television camera basics | |
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| The television signal | |
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| Tonal reproduction and gamma | |
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| Tonal reproduction, dynamic range and knee | |
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| Camera sensors - CCD basics | |
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| Features of CCD processing | |
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| Television optics | |
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| Focal length | |
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| Angle of view (horizontal) | |
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| Lens aperture (f-number or f-stop) | |
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| Depth of field | |
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| Colour television | |
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| Principles | |
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| Camera overview | |
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| Colour temperature/ND filters | |
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| Colour temperature - defining white | |
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| Colour temperature correction | |
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| MIRED | |
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| Change of camera white point | |
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| Colour temperature measurement | |
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| Correlated colour temperature and colour compensating filters | |
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| Neutral density filters | |
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| Camera sensitivity - how much light do we need? | |
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| Defining sensitivity | |
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| Factors affecting sensitivity | |
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| ASA rating and video cameras | |
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| Light sources | |
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| Choice of light source | |
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| Tungsten and tungsten halogen sources | |
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| Discharge sources - general | |
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| Discharge sources - operating practices and safety | |
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| Discharge sources - xenon | |
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| Discharge sources - CDM | |
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| Discharge sources - fluorescent sources | |
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| Luminaires | |
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| Luminaires - general | |
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| The Fresnel spotlight or soft-edged spotlight | |
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| Luminaire performance | |
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| Control of beam shape | |
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| Control of light intensity on location | |
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| Softlights - general principles | |
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| Softlights - bounce | |
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| Use of diffusion | |
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| Softlights in practice | |
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| Softlights - specials | |
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| Open-faced luminaires | |
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| Hard-edged projectors | |
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| Broad sources/cyclorama units and ground rows | |
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| PAR lights | |
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| Scrollers and dowsers | |
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| Special lights - Dedolight | |
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| Fluorescent luminaires (coldlights) | |
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| On-camera and battery lighting | |
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| Specials | |
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| Moving lights - intelligent lights | |
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| Dimmers on location | |
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| Dimmers | |
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| Dimmer law | |
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| Control of dimmers - DMX/512 (Digital Multiplex/512) | |
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| Lighting grip equipment | |
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| Basics | |
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| Stand accessories | |
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| Super-clamps and telescopic poles | |
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| Clamps | |
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| Scaffolding, trussing and scissor lifts | |
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| Electrical essentials | |
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| Electrical mains supplies - basics | |
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| Installations | |
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| Electrical safety | |
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| Use of generator | |
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| Safety | |
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| Basic lighting on location | |
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| Basic lighting kit | |
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| Effect of light - not just illumination! | |
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| Basic portraiture - 'creating a good likeness' | |
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| Keylight - practicalities | |
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| Fill-light, fill or filler | |
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| Control of light - use of inverse square law | |
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| The backlight | |
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| Background light | |
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| Kicker | |
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| Lighting the offset presenter | |
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| Interview lighting - single camera | |
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| Two-handed interview - multi-camera | |
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| Lighting in the real world | |
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| Basic observations | |
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| Creating the illusion of reality | |
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| Coping with reality | |
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| Coping with excessive contrast | |
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| Lighting continuity | |
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| Vision control and measurements | |
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| Vision control - the essence of good picture quality | |
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| Use of colour monitor | |
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| Light measurement - incident light meters | |
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| Light measurement - spotmeter | |
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| Zebra/Picoscope/Vical - aids to exposure and continuity | |
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| Exterior lighting | |
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| Observing the day | |
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| Daylight exteriors | |
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| Expanding the basics | |
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| Lighting for subject movement - basics | |
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| Lighting for subject movement - setting a crossover | |
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| Lighting for subject movement - alternatives | |
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| Creating mood - the implicit requirements | |
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| On-camera filters | |
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| Lighting effects | |
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| Lighting demonstrations | |
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| Pack shots | |
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| Conference lighting | |
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| Silhouette lighting | |
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| Chroma key on location | |
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| Lighting musicians | |
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| Lighting in public places (supermarkets/offices/hospitals) | |
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| Stadia lighting - night | |
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| Stadia lighting - special events | |
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| Street lighting | |
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| Lighting in churches | |
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| Night-lighting - principles | |
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| Night-lighting - practice | |
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| Lighting for cars | |
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| Cars at night | |
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| Planning essentials | |
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| Planning | |
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| Strategy, lighting kits and timescales | |
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| Lighting and sound pick-up | |
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| Lighting standards | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Basic conversion table | |
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| Index | |