the art of the portrait

Caravaggio's portraits are incredibly captivating. The sense of dramatic lighting is so powerful that one cannot deny how potent the images are. After looking at the pictures i sent up a challenge for myself. My challenge? To create a powerful portrait. I tried various things. Here are my outcomes via photography :



So in these photos i stole what i liked most about Caravaggio's portraits- his use of dramatic chiaroscuro. I did this by taking a lamp and angeling it on the models body in a dark room. In the middle one i used natural lighting taking advantage of the shadows that fell on my models face. I placed around with covering my models faces in all the photographs because that's something that really interests me. While i'm no Caravaggio, i did like learning from him and applying it to my own art.