Chiaroscuro– Chiaroscuro means light and dark in Italian. It is the transition between light and dark ,the chiaroscuro lighting technique can be defined simply as high contrast lighting. You use the extremes of dark and light to create an arresting image. It can be used in colour or black and white photography.

These are some examples I got of the internet. This way of taking photos was invented by Lucas Cranach or as some believe Leonardo de Vinci. These are examples of how it can look.

This is one of my attempt of split lighting and this is the original image before I edited it.

This one of the edited versions I put this one in black and white and increased the highlight and the shadows I also increased the exposure.

This is another version I edited I cropped this and increased the shadows and removed some of the texture on her skin.

These are my comparisons from before and after editing them.

This photo is my favourite one and one of the only ones I have edited but these are some of the other photos I took.