Rembrandt lighting

What is Rembrandt lighting?

Rembrandt lighting is a technique that uses a light and a reflector, or two separate lights. It’s a popular technique because it can create dramatic and natural-looking images. This is mainly characterized by glowing triangles under the subject’s eyes in the less illuminated area of ​​the face (the filled side).

What is Rebrandt lighting used for?

Rembrandt lighting is a technique utilizing one light and one reflector or two separate lights. It’s a popular technique because it creates images that look both dramatic yet natural. It’s predominantly characterized by a lit-up triangle underneath the subject’s eye on the less illuminated area of the face (fill side).

This is what type of set up you need to do Rembrandt lighting photoshoots.

These are the top three best Rembrandt lighting photoshoots.

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2 thoughts on “Rembrandt lighting”

  1. All three of your blog posts on Rembrandt, Butterfly and Chiaroscuro lighting are very good, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of different lighting techniques. Your own creative studio portraits and responses are excellent, well done!

    Keep going >

  2. The only thing to add, would be to always make sure you produce different versions of your best examples/ portraits adjusting both in colour and B/W, maybe also try out other monochrome image adjustments such as sepia tone and blue tone in Lightroom

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