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  2. Butterfly (lighting) - Wikipedia

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    In cinematography, butterflies (also known as overheads) are structures on which materials are mounted so as to control lighting in a scene or photograph.Materials commonly used on butterflies include: flags (black, opaque materials), nets (layers of neutral-colored bobinette), and diffusions (translucent white materials of different densities) for the purposes of blocking, dimming, and ...

  3. Photographic lighting - Wikipedia

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    Butterfly lighting, named for the butterfly-shaped shadow under the nose, the butterfly lighting pattern is created when the light is above and in line with the camera. Split lighting, where the main light is placed off to the side of the subject at about 90 degrees and positioned at face height or slightly above.

  4. Rembrandt lighting - Wikipedia

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    A studio portrait, showing the characteristic illuminated triangle on the darker side of the face. Rembrandt lighting is a standard lighting technique that is used in studio portrait photography and cinematography; it is also used in contrast with butterfly lighting [1] It can be achieved using one light and a reflector, [2] or two lights, and is popular because it is capable of producing ...

  5. Flight Behavior - Wikipedia

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    A monarch butterfly. In Flight Behavior, alteration of monarch butterflies migration symbolizes a changing world. [5]Dellarobia Turnbow is a 28-year-old discontented housewife living with her poor family on a farm in Appalachia.

  6. External morphology of Lepidoptera - Wikipedia

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    The scales on butterfly wings are pigmented with melanins that can produce the colours black and brown. The white colour in the butterfly family Pieridae is a derivative of uric acid, an excretory product. [13] [40]: 84 Bright blues, greens, reds, and iridescence are usually created not by pigments but through the microstructure of the scales.

  7. Ultraviolet communication in butterflies - Wikipedia

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    The butterfly eye is similar to the average insect eye in that it is composed of numerous ommatidia. Each butterfly ommatidium contains nine photoreceptor cells with generally each cell using a single opsin. [6] With a UV sensitive opsin the butterfly can see UV light and respond maximally to ultraviolet light at approximately 350 nm. [6]

  8. Structural coloration - Wikipedia

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    The brilliant iridescent colors of the peacock's tail feathers are created by structural coloration, as first noted by Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke.. Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments, although some structural coloration occurs in combination ...

  9. Flag (lighting) - Wikipedia

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    A transparent flag (scrim) with light shining through it Flags come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, from mere square inches ("dots and fingers") to many square feet ("meat axes"). Most "industry-standard" flags consist of a square wire frame stitched with black duvetyne , which minimizes any reflected light and keeps the flag lightweight.