Butterfly lighting

Butterfly lighting thought to project more glamorous and complimentary connotations than other techniques. As you can see it was often used when capturing portraits of 1950's female stars.

Set up:

• Key light is positioned directly in front of the subject. (not in the way of the camera).
• They key light is about 2/3 foot higher than the subjects head and angled at a 70/80 degree angle so that the beams of the light go down onto the subject. 
• The subject look and the body is positioned straight into the lens.