From the course: Portrait Photography: Ten Styles with One Light

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Loop or Rembrandt

Loop or Rembrandt

From the course: Portrait Photography: Ten Styles with One Light

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Loop or Rembrandt

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- Your most versatile lighting pattern is loop or Rembrandt lighting. These two look great on just about everybody. You'll use it in professional headshots. You'll use it in senior portraits. You can even set it up on portraits of more than one person and everybody looks good in that photograph. Remember, it reveals the form of the face. We can also deepen the shadows to make it more dramatic when we use the Rembrandt light. And then we can add a reflector or balance with the ambient light more so that the shadows are very gentle. Rembrandt and loop lighting is easily achieved simply by positioning your subject next to a window with sunlight shining through it, or with the open sky shining in the window. You can simply tilt your subject's face up and down and side to side, and sculpt the shadows across their face in the right way so that it's very flattering. You can also use it as a very moody and dramatic kind of a light. You'll see this kind of light everywhere you go. This kind of…

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