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flat light

American  

noun

Photography.
  1. even front lighting of a subject, producing little contrast, no shadows, and no modeling.


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Times were unimportant, however, as the racers who deigned to take to the Stelvio course finetuned their lines down the course in the kind of flat light that is also forecast for Saturday's medal race.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Low clouds caused flat light and snowfall slowed most of the later starters.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Daren looked around the country club billiard room, filled with white flowers and black-clad guests, curtains drawn against the bright, flat light of Tennessee winter.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2023

The shape gives the eye better image-sensing characteristics than a flat light sensor, and makes it appear more human.

From Nature • May 21, 2020

He could tell that it was almost dawn by the stillness and the quality of the cold, flat light beyond the canvas ceiling.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling