Modulated Value Lighting
Much natural interior lighting is neither high-nor low-key, but instead reflects a continuum of modulated medium values. Modulated value lighting is often diffused or diffused directional lighting. Daytime window light is a good source of modulated value lighting; an excellent example of this is seen in the interior scenes painted by the Dutch painter Vermeer van Delft. In these paintings, the lighting is soft, but directional, and is nearly always clearly justified or motivated by the light emanating from an open window; few values are extremely dark or bright. Often, in narrative films, interior lighting appears motivated by sunlight that shines directly through windows to form hard, rhomboid patterns on adjoining walls. This kind of lighting appears frequently in paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper. In the real world, this lighting occurs only for brief periods during the very early morning and very late afternoon(if there are no buildings or trees outside to block Most of the day, the sun so high overhead this its direct rays only areas of fact, most contemporary films and television shows nearly always depict interior daylight scenes illuminated by raking crosslight, because it is evocative and tends to look the most realistic