This is one of the common techniques used its inspired by the way Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (a famous Dutch painter) created his work he would seem to create the same lighting effect on his paintings where he would have an upside down triangle appear under the eyes of the model.
Just like this
Here is an example of how to create Rembrandt lighting it is easy enough to set up. What you need to do is
- have your light source at 40-45 degrees higher than your model
- try have just the models head and shoulders in the shot
There are many advantages to using this style of lighting the main being that it will draw attention to the models eyes which creates quite a captivating shot if that is what you are wanting from it. This is because the shapes seem to create these leading lines towards the models eyes.
Overall I think the photos have turned out good i think on all of these images I picked you are able to see a very clear shadow triangle underneath the eye and next to the nose which is the premise of Rembrandt images. I think it would have been better if I could have gotten more of these with the model in different poses.
For this image I didn’t have too much editing o do I knew I wanted to crop the image so it was more even on both sides as the was a lot of blank space on the left side than on the right which I wanted to fix. I also tried to lighten to image slightly as I did feel like it was a little bit too dark.
