Photography-butterfly lighting

On Wednesday 30th of September I had my second lesson of photography with my instructor and photographer herself, Victoria, where we concentrated on a different type of lighting this week, called butterfly lighting. Butterfly lighting is one of the oldest techniques and types of lighting used in photography for lighting a subject. It is named butterfly lighting because when taking a photograph  a butterfly-shape shadow should form underneath the subject's nose, this setup is a proven method to ensure your subject is well-lit in a pleasing manner. Butterfly lighting is considered the ‘fashion’ or ‘glamor’ lighting setup, it is mainly used for portraiture. When using "butterfly lighting" there is a specific diagram on setting the lighting up in a studio, but has only little equipment. For instance the equipment required is one key light and a white background can be black but for butterfly lighting white is more effective. The key light is placed above the camera pointing towards the subject. Sometimes when using butterfly lighting you may want to add a reflector on some odd occasions if you cant get that butterfly shape underneath the nose. As always myself and my other colleague both took the opportunity to take photos of one another to get the perfect photograph showing that we were able to use butterfly lighting. Only I choose to remove the camera from the tripod and explore different angles instead of capturing the same image repeatedly.