#specialiststudio

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New project:

Lighting Research 

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Specialist Lighting Techniques

Broad Lighting - This is when the side of a person or object that is facing the camera is mainly illuminated, and the side away from the camera is in shadow

Narrow Lighting - Is the opposite to broad lighting, the side furthest away is illuminated 

Rim Lighting - Is when the subject is backlit and just the very edges of the subject is illuminated

Butterfly lighting - Is when lighting is cast on the face from above at just the right angle so that there is a shadow below the nose, but not so far as to touch the top lip. The shadow cast can look like a butterfly.

Split lighting - Is when just one side is illuminated. Half is light, half is dark.

Rembrandt Lighting - Is when the face is lit from the side and above, the light on the side of the face furthest away from the light creates the shape of an upside down triangle, just below the eye.

[farhanahmedwhc]

Lighting Types Definitions

Broad lighting – This kind of lighting is most commonly flat and the most basic form of lighting, it creates a wide spread of lighting across the subjects face or object.

Narrow lighting – This is the opposite broad lighting, a slimmer or small spread of light across the subjects face or object.

Rim lighting – Rim lighting is a sharp lining of light created around the subject by lights placed behind and facing the camera (not in frame).

Butterfly lighting – This lighting creates a butterfly-like shadow underneath the subjects nose, this is done by a light directed down from above the subject.

Split lighting – Split lighting is a hard light on one side of the subject’s face which creates a hard shadow on the other half.

Rembrandt lighting – This lighting is similar to split lighting except a bit more light is spread to the other side of the face which creates an upside down triangle underneath the eye.