5 Portrait Lighting Positions on Photography Sets

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we've been getting a ton of questions
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about the do's and don'ts of portrait
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lighting so today we're going to go over
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the five basic rules of portrait
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lighting positions on sets
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[Music]
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all right so today we have Vinnie here
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with us to help us show the five
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lighting principles and we're going to
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start with Rembrandt lighting so
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Rembrandt lighting is also known as 45
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degree lighting it takes its name from
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the famous painter who used skylights
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and windows to illuminate his subject
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the idea here is to create a small
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inverted triangle on the subjects cheek
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that's opposite of the light source so
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basically you have this one key light
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source here and it's placed at a 45
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degree angle from our subject and a
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little bit higher than eye level so when
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we go over here and turn our other light
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off you're going to see that inverted
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triangle show up on baby's face you can
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smile benefit so next up we have split
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lighting and split lighting is used to
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split the face right down the center it
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can be used to narrow a wide face or
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nose and split lighting we want to take
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our key light and we're gonna move it to
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the side and you'll see that line appear
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right down the middle of Vinny's face
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right down his nose and if you're
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looking for something even more dramatic
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go ahead and move your light back just a
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little bit more
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so paramount lighting often called
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butterfly or glamour lighting is
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generally used for female subjects to
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highlight the cheekbones and good skin
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and as Vinny is showing here it's very
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effective you can see that we've moved
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the light up and completely parallel to
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his nose so there's no lines and it's a
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nice clean look for him next up we have
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loop lighting which is just a minor
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variation on paramount lighting that we
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just did so what we do with loop
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lighting is to come over here to the
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light and we're going to actually lower
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it down a little bit it's gonna create
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more drama on Vinny's face and we're
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gonna move it and it's going to create a
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small little loop under his nose so here
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you can see that the lighting has gotten
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a bit more dramatic in this area but if
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we go over here and turn our fill light
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off you can really see that that loop
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has appeared under Vinny's nose
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so our last lighting technique today is
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called profile lighting also known as
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rim lighting and this is used when we
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have our subject 90 degrees to the
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cameras so if any if you can turn around
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this way you'll see that what we've done
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here is we've moved our key light from
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directly in front of any to behind and
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on the side and this light high behind
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him is creating a rim on his shoulder
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and head just like this so those are the
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five basic rules of portrait lighting
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thank you so much Vinnie for being a
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great sport today and just remember that
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these are the foundations of portrait
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lighting but it doesn't mean you can't
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play with your life give yourself full
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creative control over the subject as you
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apply these five key lighting positions

5 Portrait Lighting Positions on Photography Sets

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