Chiaroscuro is Italian and stands for light-dark. In art it is used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume. In cinema it became famous in German Expressionism movies in the 1920. I use this technique to darken the whole photo and afterwards to bring back highlights in several areas of the picture to achieve a nice contrast that leads the observer's eye to the wanted points.
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