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Television Production: The Fill, Back and Background Lights |
 | | The key light by itself whether it's the sun in a clear sky or a focused quartz light in the studio produces distracting shadows. |
 | | If the back light is too low, it will be picked up by the camera in wide shots; if it's too high it will spill over the top of the subject's head, lighting up the tip of the nose, creating "the Rudolph effect," after a well-known reindeer. |
 | | First, back lights are often placed closer to the subject than the key light, and, second, with subjects confined to a limited area like a chair, the beams of most Fresnel lights can easily be "pinned down" (focused into a narrower beam) to intensify the beam. |
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