Including the light source in the image

<p>There's a name for that... for deliberately including within the image area, the light source that illuminates the subject of the photograph, or a painting/drawing. Does anyone know what that term is... the name for that attribute of a painting or photo?</p>

<p>Thanks... t</p>

<p>Maybe you're talking about chiaroscuro? That's not, strictly speaking, just including the light in the image, but a more general term for using light and light falloff. But many examples of chiaroscuro will include a light source.</p>

<p>No. Not chiaroscuro. That's emphasizing and defining the form of a subject by juxtaposing the shadow and light areas of a subject within the shadows and light areas of it's contextual environment.</p>

<p>This is like when Monet painted a landscape with mist, that had the sun in the painting, screened back by the fog, but the actual sun is represented in the overcast sky of the painting. Another example would be performance photographs, with a spotlight and the person it illuminates in the same image... t</p><div></div>

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<h1 id="firstHeading" ><strong>Tenebrism</strong> , from the <a title="Italian language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language"></a> italian <em>tenebroso.</em></h1>

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<p>Que bella. For one light chiaroscuro consider not shooting 90 degrees to the bg. Shoot at acute angle to bg, with subject fairly close to it, light closer to bg ahead of subject than behind. Result, shadow side of face closer to brightest side of bg ahead, highlight side of head on side light travels furthest(inverse square rule) so darker bg. </p>

<p>Bob: That's a fine description of how to achieve the chiaroscuro effect in a single light studio portrait, but it's got nothing to do with my question.</p>

<p>Anthony: all translations I get for tenebroso seem far removed from my intended meaning, ie: "darkness shrouded in darkness" or "an impenetrable shyness" or "the occult wrapped in mystery". But thanks for trying... and teaching me a new Italian word... t</p>

<p>I can't find the a term to describe the style (if it is a "style") but Turners seems as close as I can venture.</p>

<h1 id="firstHeading">J. M. W. Turner</h1>

<h1>"In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in <a title="Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_-_The_Great_Western_Railway" title="Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway">Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway</a> , where the objects are barely recognizable. The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the <a title="Impressionists" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionists" title="Impressionists">Impressionists</a> , particularly <a title="Claude Monet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet" title="Claude Monet">Claude Monet</a> , carefully studied his techniques."</h1>

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<p>right... t</p><div></div>

<p>It just doesn't pay to start wondering about these things...takes up so much time. :~)<br>

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