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Photography Lighting Techniques: Rembrandt & Split Lighting

Interactive 3D portrait-lighting studio: move a key light around a sculpted head and watch the light pattern change live between Rembrandt, split, loop, butterfly, broad and short lighting, with a live key:fill ratio readout.

Geology & Earth Science2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🌍 Earth

This simulation puts a real, shadow-mapped key light and fill light around a sculpted 3D head so you can build the classic portrait lighting patterns yourself — Rembrandt, split, loop, butterfly, broad and short — by dragging the light's azimuth and elevation, and see exactly why each angle produces its signature shadow shape, with a live key-to-fill contrast ratio in stops.

⚙ Under the hood

This simulation demonstrates common photography lighting techniques such as Rembrandt lighting and split lighting. Users can manipulate these settings to achieve different artistic effects.

Rembrandt LightingSplit LightingPhotography Techniques

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install