butterfly lighting

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Butterfly lighting, also called Paramount lighting, became a staple pattern for the Hollywood photographers of the 1930s. It’s commonly used in fashion and beauty photography because it’s one of the more flattering ways to light certain shapes of faces. It’s name, butterfly lighting, comes from the symmetrical, butterfly-like shadow it produces just beneath the nose. The butterfly pattern can be quite useful for a variety of faces, but is at its best on lean subjects with high and pronounced cheekbones. It is produced by placing the light source above the face (typically 25-70 degrees) and in line with the direction in which the face is pointing.

1 Face your model directly to the camera.

2 Hold your off camera flash above your model , around 1 meter from your model's front.

3 Place a reflector just below your model's chin, but not in your capture.

4 Catch light : In order to make your model's eyes to be bright and mercifully, here we use a octagonal on flash soft box.

1 A light stand is able to help to free your hand. As the stand holding the flash far than your hand, the on flash soft box should be replaced by a transparent umbrella, in order to cover bigger area.

2 The reflector board stand bring you more stability and inaccessible angles.

3 Concentrating on your model, let the TTL system metering the light you may need.

butterfly lighting

butterfly lighting

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