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What is Chiarascuo ?
What is Chiaroscuro ?– This is an Italian word which means ‘light-dark’. Artists who have used the technique include Leonardo da Vinci and Caravaggio. Leonardo employed it to give a vivid impression of the three-dimensional of his figures, while Caravaggio used such contrasts for the sake of drama.
Chiaroscuro in Photography – The term chiaroscuro originates from the Renaissance period and is often associated with painting or drawing, it has evolved into the photographic world and now often simply means strong and bold contrasts between light and dark areas in a photograph.
My Response To Chiaroscuro
Studio Lighting Techniques
Why Do We Use Studio Lighting?
We use studio lighting because it enables the photographer to create a controlled environment to capture the exact photograph that you want. Studio lighting allows you to completely control how hard/soft the light is, the intensity of it and the direction of which it is coming from. It is easy to adapt the studio lights to create the best shot possible by highlighting certain parts of the subjects face and reflecting light in different directions.
What is the Difference Between 1-2-3 Point Lighting?
Three point lighting is a method used in studio photography in which uses three separate positions for light sources so that the photographer can illuminate the subject in the exact way that he/she wants to. The first light is a key light, which is usually the strongest light and sets the lighting of the scene. The second light is the fill light which helps to fill the shadows that the key light casts to prevent a distracting contrast. The last light is called a back light and is used to create separation and contour. the back light helps to illuminate the model from the back for example, the models hair being lit up.
What is Fill Lighting?
Fill light is any source of illumination that lightens or fills in areas of shadow created by other lights. Most of the time, fill light is used to lighten the shadows created by the key light. Below is an example of which shows how fill lighting creates an effect.
What is Spill Lighting?
Spill lighting is the light that falls where it was not intended to fall. This creates a distracting effect within images which can really negatively effect your pictures. 
What is Chiaroscuro?
Chiaroscuro is a lighting technique that uses strong tonal contrasts between light and dark to model 3D forms with a dramatic effect. This technique creates a great deal of drama and mystery which i think is a great way to portray feelings and stories.
Photoshop Burn And Dodge Tools
What is the burn and dodge tool? The burn and dodge tool allow you to either darken or lighten an image of your choice. This can be used to create dramatic effect within an image, and so can use it to lighten dark areas or darken parts you want to stand out the most. This is used in portraiture due to how it can be used to make certain features stand out above the rest, such as making one side of the face darker. The image below shows the effects of dodge and burn to a grey surface:I wanted to apply this to an image of mine to see the effects that could be made. These were my steps: 1) Navigate to the selection bar on the left, and pick the burn tool.
2) Select a suitable size for the brush to match the face, and go over the parts of the face I want to darken once.
3) Go back to the bar on the left and select the dodge tool instead, from there I lightened the parts of the image I wanted to have a clear contrast from the darkness.
John Rakin Waddell/Davis Bailley
John Rankin Waddell
John Rankin Waddell in a British born photographer most well known for his portrait, fashion and commercial photography Waddell attended Thirst school and sixth form Whilst studying accounting at Brighton Polytechnic, he realized that his interests lay elsewhere and dropped out, taking up the study of photography at Barnfield College Luton and then London college of printing. Rankin met Jefferson Hack and once they graduated, together they started a magazine titled Dazed and Confused. In 1999, the two became the founder of a production company known as, Dazed Film & TV.Rankin then in 2000 launched RANK, a quarterly fashion magazine.
Davis Bailey
Davis Bailey is a British born fashion and portrait photographer. Bailey developed a love of natural history this then led into his photography. As he suffered from dyslexia he struggled at school As well as dyslexia he also has the motor skill disorder dyspraxia. In August 1958, and determined to pursue a career in photography, he bought a Canon rangefinder camera. Unable to obtain a place at the London College of Printing because of his school record, he became a second assistant to David Collins. He was delighted to be called to an interview with photographer John French.
In 1959, Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole’s Studio Five, before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year. He also undertook a large amount of freelance work.Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, Bailey captured and helped create the ‘Swinging London’ of the 1960s: a culture of fashion and celebrity chic. The three photographers socialised with actors, musicians and royalty, and found themselves elevated to celebrity status. Together, they were the first real celebrity photographers, named by Norman Parkinson “the Black Trinity”
Studio
What is studio lighting?
Studio lighting is broken down into two categories, continuous and flash lighting. Continuous lighting means that the light source is kept on and you can power them up and down based on how much light you need for your shoot. Flash lighting is an artificial light produced from a flash to help illuminate a dark scene.
What is fill lighting?
Fill light is any source of light that lightens areas of shadow created by other lights. Usually fill light is used to lighten the shadows created by the main light.
Key lighting – The key light is the first and usually most important light that a photographer will use in a lighting setup. The purpose of the key light is to highlight the form of the subject.
Fill lighting – In photographic lighting a fill light may be used to reduce the contrast of an image to capture the same amount of detail typically seen by eye in average lighting and considered normal.
Using the studio
Favorite images from my studio shoot
Developing my studio images
Studio photography homework:using different lights
