flat lighting

The node's airlock was three feet away, hard to see because of the flat lighting.

A raven flies past, looking dead black in the flat lighting, and croaks his way up the valley.

The incident occurred during mid-afternoon when flat lighting impaired visibility of the adjoining trail.

Mr. Fuller would simply use flat sets and flat lighting, producing a look similar to early television drama.

The film has the flat lighting and sound of canned television, and the actors look as if they have been dropped on the set without instruction.

Long blond hair, earrings and quick smile glittering in the flat lighting, and a chardonnay voice, dry yet fruity.

Freund also pioneered "flat lighting," in which everything is brightly lit to eliminate shadows and the need for endless relighting.

"It's such flat lighting!

The scene itself may have been unsatisfactory as a subject, with flat lighting and dull colours combining to produce the sad-looking picture you see on the screen.

Mostly, the picture looks and sounds like a public-access soap opera, with flat lighting, tinny dialogue and a loopy synthesizer score.

The lamps and their fixtures are widely used in theatre, concerts and motion picture production when a substantial amount of flat lighting is required for a scene.

Throughout, Rotunno's black-and-white cinematography makes evocative use of flat lighting and gray skies to accentuate the sense of soot and smoke.

Cramped compartments, narrow passageways, the constant hum of electrical equipment, the glare-free, shadowless, flat lighting, the same smell of cold metal and canned stale air.

Parabolic Aluminized Reflector lights, or PAR lights, or PAR cans, are used when a substantial amount of flat lighting is required for a scene.

Critics have credited Freund for the show's lustrous black and white cinematography, but more importantly, Freund designed the "flat lighting" system for shooting sitcoms that is still in use today.

By the same token, many film producers today favor the bright, flat lighting that shows up best on the video screen and tend to avoid the subtler, atmospheric lighting that distinquishes quality cinematography.

As this very broad, flat lighting is more typical of an overcast day outdoors, a more realistic interior illumination is achieved by reducing the power of additional lighting relative to the available light, so that either source may act as a fill to the other.

Fashion cottoned to the aesthetics of pornographic films even before art, video, music and Hollywood got in on the trend, infatuated with the genre's flat lighting, its affectless subjects, its pine-paneled rec rooms and atmosphere of ugly consumerism tempered by the poignancy of the little death.