logo

Quotes About Lighting

wedding. If you're using a flash, set your white balance
~ Scott Kelby
There is nothing worse than bright lighting - it isn't flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.
~ Patrick Cox
Natural lighting is the best, or golden hour when the sun is setting, because it makes your eyes brighter and everything else just glow.
~ Jordyn Woods
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
~ Jeff Bezos
Did they have no inkling of how the advances in lighting had affected the behavior and the minds of people, what it meant for the tiniest hamlet to have its brilliantly lighted drugstores and supermarkets, and for people to wander at eight o'clock of an evening with the same energetic curiosity and eagerness for work and experience that they enjoyed during the sunlight hours?
~ Anne Rice
The lights are better, safer, and start at around $20. They use less battery power. Normally you get 8 to 10 hours of battery life on a standard light. You can get 150 hours with the LED.
~ Mark Hall
Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
~ John Hawley
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
~ John Malkovich
Mr. Payton was at work on his pipe again, lighting and coaxing it. "They need constant attention, pipes, like babies and guinea hens," he said, and sucked in the smoke.
~ Elizabeth Enright
All librarians, deep down, loathe their buildings. Something is always wrong—the counter is too high, the shelves too narrow, the delivery entrance too far from the offices. The hallway echoes. The light from windows bleaches books. In short, libraries are constructed by architects, not librarians.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
~ Kate Williams
When there is a Brazilian who is lighting things up, he is at Real Madrid before you know it!
~ Riyad Mahrez
Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself.
~ Jon Favreau
Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn't have electricity, we'd be watching television by candle light?
~ Tommy Cooper
On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.
~ D. B. Sweeney
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
~ Douglas Sirk
The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.
~ Oscar de la Renta
Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.
~ Benjamin Millepied
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
~ Janet Echelman
Her smile, when she condescended to smile, was very sweet,—lighting up her whole face and flattering for the moment the person on whom it shone. It was as though a rose in emitting its perfume could confine itself to the nostrils of its one favoured friend. And
~ Anthony Trollope
Almost all of Mr. Cobb's function—aside from lighting cigarettes for me, and pausing respectfully when my husband spoke—seemed to consist of taking objects which actually existed in almost square feet, and translating them into cubic feet—rugs had to be rolled, books had to be boxed, pictures had to be put into packing cases.
~ Shirley Jackson
Jane had spent too many hours in elevators and pathology rooms, and the pallor of strip lighting haunted her like a twelve-year-old's memories of a bad dream.
~ ballard j g iv
A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
~ Barbara Corcoran
When you work as a cinematographer, the actors look to you for reassurance. When you're lighting them, they can never think you're making an adjustment because of the way they look. If they are nervous, it impacts their performance, which impacts the story.
~ Reed Morano