Butterfly lighting is a popular lighting technique used when taking portraits of people in lighting studios as the light creates a little butterfly shadow under the nose and also highlights the cheek bones if done correctly.
Butterfly lighting is also known as ‘Paramount lighting’ because it was popular in Hollywood films and portraits.
An example of Butterfly lighting
How to create butterfly lighting
Below is how we set up the lighting studio to create butterfly lighting.
Below is a set of all the photos I took in the lighting studio that resemble Butterfly lighting.
Editing my Photos
I like this photo I took of my friend but I want to edit it to make him more centred I also want to try experimenting by adding a black & white filter as it is common for photos with butterfly lighting to be in black & white and I think it will look good in this photo. after slightly cropping the photo I experimented with the black and white adjustment to try and make the white a bit brighter. below is the result I got.
