First, of course, you need to be clear about exactly which mood you're after: sunny, dreamy, macho, scary or any of a score of other emotional states. For instance, midnight lighting is equally dark, blue and contrasty for both strolling lovers and lurking vampires. Beyond the basics, though, romantic and horrific are different animals.
To create a mood with light, it's better to understand the four characteristics of all lighting moods and then use your creative instincts to shape them. Those characteristics are brightness, contrast, definition, and realism.
Brightness: High or Low-Key
The overall brightness of a scene is expressed as its "key." A high-key design features bright overall lighting, with shadows used as accents. A low-key design is just the opposite: mostly dark, with bright…
So let's see how to paint emotional light pictures, using contrast, color and, first of all, key. As used here, "key" doesn't mean the main light on the subject, but the proportion of light to dark in the image. We'll work indoors, where you normally do most of your lighting and have the most control.
High-Key
High-key images are basically light-toned with darker accents. This doesn't mean low contrast; a good high-key lighting design includes a full range of tones from white …
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