Tutorial Chiaroscuro lighting

Garry Edwards · 14 Feb 2020

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Chiaroscuro lighting - Chiaroscuro lighting involves lighting one side of the subject and the other side of the background

This is the first of 3 tutorials featuring this subject, and it will make sense to read them in order.

Chiaroscuro (from the Italian for light and dark) is a simple but very effective lighting approach that has been used by painters for centuries. It creates the closest thing we can get to a 3-D image in a 2 -D medium, and of course it can also be combined with other lighting techniques and with selective focus. Basically, it just involves lighting one side of the subject only, and...