Which lighting creates a lit triangle on one cheek?

Which lighting creates a lit triangle on one cheek?

• A. Split Lighting
• B. Rembrandt Lighting
• C. Butterfly Lighting
• D. Loop Lighting

Answer: (B)

Understanding how light direction shapes facial shadows is what this item tests. Rembrandt lighting comes from a key light placed about 45 degrees to the subject and slightly above, so the side of the face toward the camera falls into shadow while a small triangle of light appears on the cheek opposite the light, created by the nose's shadow. This triangular patch under the eye on that cheek is the defining feature. Other patterns differ in how the shadows fall: split lighting leaves a sharp division between lit and shadowed sides; butterfly lighting produces a symmetrical butterfly-shaped shadow under the nose; loop lighting shows a short curved nose shadow that prints as a loop on the cheek.

Understanding how light direction shapes facial shadows is what this item tests. Rembrandt lighting comes from a key light placed about 45 degrees to the subject and slightly above, so the side of the face toward the camera falls into shadow while a small triangle of light appears on the cheek opposite the light, created by the nose's shadow. This triangular patch under the eye on that cheek is the defining feature. Other patterns differ in how the shadows fall: split lighting leaves a sharp division between lit and shadowed sides; butterfly lighting produces a symmetrical butterfly-shaped shadow under the nose; loop lighting shows a short curved nose shadow that prints as a loop on the cheek.