# Lighting presets

> The shape and quality of the light on the subject.

The shape and quality of the light on the subject.

**If you don't pick one:** The scene's own available light is used.

| Preset | Id | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Backlit Foliage Glow | `lighting-observed-light-backlit-foliage-glow` | Bright sun blown to a soft glow behind a screen of leaves, green-gold colour bleeding into the shadow side. |
| Backlit Rim | `lighting-rim` | Light behind the subject tracing a bright outline along hair and shoulders, the front kept dark. |
| Backlit Steam (Food) | `lighting-steam_backlight_food` | Warm light behind the dish shining toward the lens, catching steam or glossy sauce as a bright rim. |
| Bare Cool Bulb in a Dark Workshop | `lighting-observed-light-cold-bulb-workshop` | One bare cool-white bulb close to a work surface: a crisp bright pool on the work, the rest of the workshop in readable cool shadow. |
| Blown White Backlight | `lighting-blown_white_backlight` | Strong backlight blowing the background to near-white, subject rim-lit with a soft frontal fill. |
| Bright Airy (Food) | `lighting-bright_airy_food` | Large soft light directly overhead, very even and low-contrast, almost no visible shadow. |
| Butterfly | `lighting-butterfly` | Key light straight above the lens, casting a small butterfly-shaped shadow under the nose. |
| Candle-Flame Glow | `lighting-candle-flame-glow` | Small candle flames held close: a deep amber glow on faces and hands that falls away within an arm's length. |
| Clamshell Beauty | `lighting-clamshell_beauty` | Large soft source above plus a reflector below — luminous even skin with a faint shadow under the chin. |
| Coloured Gel Wash | `lighting-gel_wash` | Saturated coloured gels from opposite sides — one colour across one half of the subject, a contrasting one across the other. |
| Dappled Canopy Sunlight | `lighting-observed-light-dappled-canopy` | Direct sun broken into shifting patches by a leaf canopy overhead. |
| Daylight Filtered Through Bonfire Smoke | `lighting-observed-light-smoke-filtered-daylight` | Ordinary daylight scattered and muted by a drifting curtain of ground-level smoke. |
| Direct Flash | `lighting-direct_flash` | Hard on-camera flash straight at the subject — flat punchy light, shiny highlights on skin, a crisp shadow on the wall behind. |
| Dusk Horizon Afterglow | `lighting-observed-light-dusk-horizon-afterglow` | The last warm band of light along the horizon after the sun has already dropped away, fading to cool grey above. |
| Flat Overcast Backlight Silhouette | `lighting-observed-light-overcast-backlit-silhouette` | A wide flat overcast sky filling the background, strong enough to flatten anything in front of it to a dark shape. |
| Floodlit — Banked Floodlights | `lighting-floodlit-night` | Banks of tall floodlights on towers, hard cool-white light from several steep angles at once. |
| Golden Hour | `lighting-golden` | Low warm sun just after sunrise or before sunset — long soft shadows, amber skin, a glowing rim on the hair. |
| Hard Daylight Shaft Through a Gap | `lighting-observed-light-hard-shaft-through-gap` | One crisp-edged shaft of direct daylight cutting into a dim room through a narrow gap. |
| Hard Sun | `lighting-hard_sun` | Direct unclouded sun — high contrast, sharply-defined shadow edges, bright specular highlights. |
| Hazy Atmospheric Diffusion | `lighting-observed-light-hazy-diffusion` | Sun behind thin haze — a pale glow with no hard disc, shadows present but soft-edged. |
| High-Key | `lighting-highkey` | Bright and near-shadowless, everything lifted toward white including the background. |
| Household Lamp and Window Colour Clash | `lighting-observed-light-warm-lamp-cool-window-mix` | A warm household lamp on one side of a room competing with cool window daylight on the other. |
| Jaali Lattice Sun Pattern | `lighting-jaali-lattice-sun-pattern` | Hard sun through a carved stone lattice out of frame, scattering a crisp star-and-hexagon pattern of light and shadow. |
| Large Stacked Bonfire Lighting a Crowd at Night | `lighting-observed-light-large-fire-crowd` | A large stacked ground fire throwing warm light broadly across many nearby faces, cool fluorescent spill at the edge. |
| Light Tent | `lighting-tent` | Subject enclosed in diffusion so light wraps from every direction — no glare, no hard edge anywhere. |
| Low Sun Flare Through Distant Trees | `lighting-observed-light-low-sun-flare-haze` | A low sun hidden behind distant trees, blooming a warm flare into one corner against a cool hazy scene. |
| Low Sun Glare Off Water | `lighting-observed-light-sun-glare-water` | Low sun just above a water line, throwing a blown-out glare disc across the surface. |
| Low-Key | `lighting-lowkey` | Mostly shadow with small controlled pools of light, the background falling away to black. |
| Midday Sun | `lighting-midday` | Sun directly overhead — harsh top-down light with dark shadows under the brows, nose and chin. |
| Moody Dark (Food) | `lighting-moody_dark_food` | A single hard side light against a near-black background — everything else drops to pure shadow. |
| Moving Coloured Stage Gel Beams | `lighting-observed-light-moving-stage-gels` | Overhead moving-head stage lights throwing distinct hard-edged green and violet beams through haze. |
| Museum Spotlight Pools | `lighting-observed-light-museum-spotlight-pools` | Narrow ceiling spots isolating objects in separate pools of light, surroundings dim. |
| Night Market Bulb Strings | `lighting-observed-light-night-bulb-strings` | Bare warm bulbs strung overhead, each its own small point source with visible highlights. |
| On-Location Softbox Key | `lighting-observed-light-onlocation-softbox` | A single portable softbox on a stand, angled in as an obvious key against available light. |
| Open Bonfire as the Only Night Source | `lighting-observed-light-bonfire-nightsource` | An open wood fire as the only light at night, intensely warm near the flame and easing into deep blue night beyond it. |
| Overcast | `lighting-overcast` | Whole-sky diffusion through cloud — flat, even, almost shadowless, with muted colour. |
| Phone Screen Glow Against Cool Ambient | `lighting-observed-light-phone-glow-cool-ambient` | A small phone screen held close as the brightest point in frame, against a much dimmer cool ambient. |
| Raking Low Sun Casting Bare Branch Shadows | `lighting-observed-light-raking-branch-shadows` | A low near-horizontal sun throwing long hard-edged branch shadows across open ground. |
| Rembrandt | `lighting-rembrandt` | One key light high and to the side, leaving a small lit triangle on the shadowed cheek. |
| Ring Light | `lighting-ring_light` | A ring of light around the lens — completely even frontal fill, no shadow on the face, circular catchlights in the eyes. |
| Saturated Red-Pink Ambient Gel Wash | `lighting-observed-light-saturated-red-gel-wash` | A whole space flooded evenly in deep red-pink coloured light with no visible fixture. |
| Sheer Curtain Window Light | `lighting-observed-light-sheer-curtain-window` | Daylight through a sheer curtain, scattered into a soft even wash with gentle falloff. |
| Skimming Rim Backlight | `lighting-golden-hour-rim-backlight` | Low late-afternoon sun directly behind the subject, drawing a bright warm rim along edges and fingers. |
| Sodium-Vapour Streetlight | `lighting-sodium-vapour-streetlight` | One tall sodium streetlamp overhead: monochrome orange light that drains colour to amber and brown. |
| Split Lighting | `lighting-split` | Light hard from one side only — half the face lit, half in near-total shadow. |
| Street Candid | `lighting-candid` | Whatever light happens to be there — mixed colour temperatures, uneven, unstyled. |
| Veil Diffusion Glow | `lighting-veil_diffusion_glow` | Light filtered through sheer fabric draped near the subject — soft, romantic, broken-up shadow. |
| Warm Point Source in the Dark | `lighting-observed-light-warm-point-source` | A single small warm lamp close to the subject: a rich amber pool on the face, the room stepping down into warm, readable shadow. |
| Window Side Light (Food) | `lighting-window_side_food` | Soft natural light from a window to one side, warm with a gentle shadow rolling away from it. |

This page shows basic context only. Hover any preset in the app itself for the fuller explanation, including when to reach for it.

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