The Film Lab - Lighting Basics Ep. 1: Rembrandt Lighting

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How to create effective, dramatic lighting on a portrait subject with three lights. It looks cool as hell and once you know how to do it, its pretty easy to reproduce. Mike and Rajo let you in on the secret of one of the masters.

http://www.thesubstream.com

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  • this is so useful

  • Glad it helps.

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  • great. thanks.

  • Rembrandt lighting is only good on Europeans because they have a broad face. Where the light hitting the eyes creating shadows across their face making it more stand out. But not good on asian faces because they have a flatter broad characteristics, so making a rembrandt light for them is a lot harder :/

  • I noticed that Rembrandt lighting appeals to men than women.

  • Thank you for this simple yet effective video. I show it for my art students

    Cheers

    M

  • Thank you so much. Much appreciated :)

  • Not fair! You said you could achieve this lighting with a single light and a reflector, then you went and used three lights you big cheat! You should be demonstrating how it can be achieved with the single light, as was mentioned a couple of times. If you do this maybe I'll send you a Welsh cake haha. I'm Welsh, by the way.

  • Thanks fools

  • My preference would be to watch a proper model sit there and clearly demo what you wanted to explain but I think you were going for the light hearted humour thing....I think. Your model was just too distracting and uninterested...which put me off a little. But back to the point...

    Excellent video with clear explanation and a little history chucked in too. Deffo a high rating just for the educational content. Many thanks :)

  • can't you make more??

    this is so informative and funny as hell!!!

    (and maybe change the tags so more people can see it)

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