Chiaroscuro lighting Practitioners.

Paolo Roversi

Born 1947. Paolo's passion for photography built up when he was on a family trip in spain, when he got home he set up a dark room and begun developing photos! in 1970 Paolo opened his own portrait studio where he began photographing celebrities and their families. Step by step Paolo reached closer and closer to the fashion industry. In 1974 Laurence packman took Paolo on as an assistant photographer. Laurence taught Paolo everything he needed to know to become a professional photographer!

Here you can see the loop lighting. Really love the blue- green tint in her hair. Very intense photograph because of her pose.

Here he has used Split lighting because you can only see one half of her face. Really love the intensity of the shadows. The lighting actually looks like a sunday beam through a window or something.

Richard Misrach

Born 1949. Richard is an american photographer who is identified for introducing colour to fine art photography. Richard uses large format cameras. Wall street journal calls Richard the most 'interesting and original photographer of his generation.'

Richard is known to document man made destructions, he does this by putting a whole series of photographs together to show the change which i find really interesting.

In both photographs below you can tell he has photographed at night using a speed light and another light to highlight cactuses and other interesting things in the background. 

I really love the bottom photo because you can see the light from the moon. He would have had to have used a slow shutter speed.