Generally, this isn’t a huge difference for _high key_, since they’re both kinda bright, but there is generally a different emotional effect:
* High-key image: ethereal, delicate, dream-like
* High-key lighting: cheery, upbeat, energetic
but if we go to _low key_, there’s a huge difference: low key *lighting* usually means that there’s a lot of contrast from a hard non-key light. This is often dramatic and dynamic, whereas a low key image in the classical sense has an overall sense of darkness, often without contrasting highlights:
* Low-key image: somber, restrained, depressing
* Low-key lighting: dramatic, mysterious, taut
In some ways this is a tangent to the tutorial, but it’s something I see a lot of people get mixed up, and it’s confusing when people are using a similar-sounding term to mean very different things.
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