Rembrandt lighting photos

For this technique to work I made sure the light source was in the right place. The photo below is the set up I used.

I sorted through my photos by adding lines through the worst shots and green circles around the best. I will now go onto to do some minimal editing to improve the images that have green circles on. I looked for certain aspects within the shots like the triangle under the eye for the technique of Rembrandt lighting and then looked at the models facial expression and pose. By sorting photos this way it gives me a clear idea of how many good shots I have to work with.

Small adjustments to the lighting has helped bring out the golden colour in the models hair, it also helped bring out the models face as before it was rather shadowed by a fairly dull, grey shadow making the model appear washed out.

Again I used small lighting adjustments to pull out the brighter more golden colours in the photo. This is enhanced by the Rembrandt lighting technique under her left eye.

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