Lighting Styles

Broad Lighting

Here the main light illuminates the side of the subject's face turned toward the camera -- the broad view.
It tends to flatten the illusion of depth and de-emphasize her facial features.

To create a broad light, pose your subject to show a 2/3 or 3/4 view of the face and direct your main light toward the side of the face that is closest to the camera.

A broad light can be used to add weight to a face that is too thin. 

Broad Lighting Setup

• Main light is close to camera axis
• Light falls mainly on the side of the face that is closest to the camera
• Good for subjects with more narrow face

Short / Narrow Lighting

 

Still further left, we get the popular short or narrow lighting. It narrows round faces and brings out the contours much better than broad lighting. 

This is an example of Short /Narrow lighting that I took, just using a hard lighting source. If I was to have used a soft light source as well, the broad side of the face would have been lit up more.

Thanks Eleanor for being my model.

http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/lighting_styles.htm