Illumination that comes from a man-made source, such as electronic flash.

An ambiguous term that refers to light produced by electricity as opposed to a Natural source and to illumination introduced to record images. Depending upon how it is used, it looks either artificial or natural.

Any light not directly produced by the sun. Can be tungsten, flash, household bulbs, sodium vapor street lamps, etc. In many cases, the color produced by artificial light is deficient in the blue end of the spectrum, thus daylight-balanced color films will record the light as being warm/red/amber. Tungsten-balanced slide films, or color-balancing f [..]

Includes man-made lighting used in offices and homes, such as fluorescent or incandescent, in addition to flash.

Used to describe any continuous man made light source such as tungsten and fluorescent lighting.

Illumination other than natural daylight. The main sources of artificial light for photographic use are tungsten lamps, flashbulbs and electronic flash.

all light not originating from a natural source - normally the sun.

Illumination created by the photographer or that is not naturally present within a scene.

Like the name denotes, Artificial Light is any light that comes from a man-made light source, so it can come from dedicated photo floods, everyday household lamps, overhead fluorescent lights. Artificial light is usually tungsten-balanced, but special photographic lamps are available to produce the cooler, blue light of sunlight.