Lighting Styles & Moods

Portrait of a woman bathed in golden hour sunlight streaming through a west-facing window, warm amber light wrapping around her face, long shadows cast across the wall behind her, 85mm lens at f/1.8, rich warm tones

Dramatic Rembrandt lighting portrait of a man with a triangle of light on his shadowed cheek, single key light at 45 degrees from upper left, deep shadows on the opposite side, 85mm lens at f/2.8, painterly chiaroscuro