What is the Ambient Light in your Studio?

Jane Gardner
5 min readJun 4, 2022
Photo by Harry Cunningham on Unsplash

What is the quality of light in your studio?

This is jane gardner and welcome to

step in front of the camera series.

Today, we’re going to be talking about ambient light. So what is ambient light? Well, it’s basically all the light that fills your room when you don’t have any lights on.

Now, I do have lights on because you wouldn’t be able to see me at all, but I just want to show you. Um I don’t know if I’ll show you the difference. Well, I guess I will, I guess I could, I don’t like to have close ups when I moved close to the camera.

But anyway, um you may not notice difference between ambient light and the light that’s directly from your lamps and lights, but um, you can actually see quite a bit of ambient light. And so, you know, it’s always present in your room now right now, it’s sunny in uh, down here in the basement with the windows.

It’s just coming in and the cats are enjoying it. And that’s why I’ve got some light on one side of my face and shadows on the other. Well, once…

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Jane Gardner

TV Producer, Video Mentor, Finding your Purpose TV, Ultimate TV Channel System creator, all about producing your show at https://ultimatetvchannelsystem.com