Experimenting With Lighting

We were introduced to the work of Caravaggio and Tim Walker, differing artists who both utilise light in different ways. Caravaggio is a typically more traditional artist working more with paint in the custom renaissance style, whereas Tim Walker works more with photography in a contemporary fashion.

Caravaggio:

While looking at Caravaggio we also looked at his use of Chiaroscuro, this being the treatment of light and shade in drawings and paintings, and is generally created by creating a high contrast between light and dark. There is usually an area of darkness next to an intense light source. This generally creates a more moody and eerie atmosphere to an image or picture or painting.   

Tim Walker:

Tim Walker employs the use of light in a more modern and contemporary fashion, creating seemingly unfixed light sources throughout a photograph. This is much more experimental and in Tim Walkers work, I think has been very successful. It is this experimental type of lighting I would like to incorporate more into my work.