Butterfly Lighting Setup | Film Lighting Techniques
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 Published On Aug 13, 2021

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In today's video we'll be examining the butterfly lighting setup.
Butterfly lighting is a cinematic lighting technique that goes back the golden age of Hollywood cinema. Also known as the Paramount lighting setup, it was used to light Hollywood starlets such as Audrey Hepburn.

Butterfly lighting is an incredibly simple setup to learn. Today we'll show you butterfly lighting examples that compare hard lighting vs soft lighting techniques.

We've even included a butterfly lighting diagram for you to download, so checkout the link above to grab that one.

CONTENT:
00:00 - Introduction to Butterfly Lighting
00:27 - Why Butterfly Lighting is so popular
00:50 - butterfly lighting diagram
01:03 - Butterfly Lighting Setup
01:37 - Too High vs Too Low
01:57 - Filling the shadows
02:16 - hard lighting vs soft lighting
02:31 - Butterfly lighting and diffusion
02:45 - Butterfly lighting and bounce lighting
03:37 - Butterfly lighting in moving shots
04:01 - Outro

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