Examples of lighting types: Butterfly

 Here we can see an example of butterfly lighting. Butterfly lighting is also known as Paramount lighting, as it was mainly used for traditional Hollywood glamour photography. On my beautiful model, I placed the light slightly above his head, looking down on him to brighten his face and cast shadows amongst his cheekbones. The most noteable shadow cast is the one below the nose of which is the shape of a butterfly, thus the name.
Butterfly lighting is achieved by simply placing the light directly in front and slightly above the subject, as displayed in the diagram below: