Hard Lighting
Hard lighting is used as a more direct light instead of a general light. Soft light wraps the picture, while hard light creates more rigidity, and shadows with a sharper edge. Hard light produces parallel light beams which are focused in one direction. Ex. camera flash or direct light. Hard lighting in portraits is used to break up the photo more, whereas soft lighting will show the background more. For hard lighting photography, the distance between the light source and the subject has to be small, and he source itself has to be small too. To set up a single light source to produce hard lighting photography you have to put it parallel with the subject and directly facing it. Hard lighting is used to show detail.