Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. Traditional photographic lighting uses a key light, a fill light and a back light for illumination. Low-key lighting often uses only a key light, optionally controlled with a fill light or a simple reflector.
Low-key lighting is often used in product advertising. This camera is lit by a soft box positioned above, with a white reflector to the front-left
Image: Low key cat
Image: Ayesha Blue Hour Film
Image: Low key photography portrait of a young man
Stage lighting is the craft of lighting as it applies to the production of theater, dance, opera, and other performance arts. Several different types of stage lighting instruments are used in this discipline. In addition to basic lighting, modern stage lighting can also include special effects, such as lasers and fog machines. People who work on stage lighting are commonly referred to as lighting technicians or lighting designers.
Classical Spectacular used ordinary stage lighting plus special laser effects
An example of stage lighting, trusses and LED walls are used during a WWE SmackDown Live televised professional wrestling show.
Dazzling light effects during a Kanye West show in 2011
An example of a rig including moving head, generic and LED fixtures at 'The Tuesday Club'
