hard light

noun

, Cinematography.

1. directed light, especially light whose beams are relatively parallel, producing distinct shadows and a harsher modeling effect on the subject.

Example Sentences

The sunshine-noir dialectic, the intimations of doom in the hard light glinting across acres of traffic — the most powerful tropes of Los Angeles, before they became tropes, were all in Flanner’s five-stanza distillation, as deceptively simple as Wallace Stevens.

From Los Angeles Times

In the morning, there’s very hard light.

From New York Times

Image: Marvel Were it not for Kamala coming across her grandmother’s mysterious bangle in Ms. Marvel’s first episode, she never would have discovered her power to make hard light constructs or how her family’s history intertwined with that of a group of djinn-like beings called Clan Destines from another plane of existence.

From The Verge

Kamala creating a hard light construct.

From The Verge

While El Arbi and Fallah understood that Marvel head Kevin Feige was looking for a new adaptation of Kamala’s story rather than “literally a translation of the comic books,” the directing duo wasn’t initially sure how they could tackle the concept of hard light in a way that would look impressive.

From The Verge