4 Dramatic Lighting Setups like Carravaggio

What does a late 16th century Italian painter have to do with an American film genre with a French name? Good question. Lighting, of course! The way Caravaggio depicted light is actually very reminiscent of how old noir movies were lit.



If there's one single lesson to take away from this channel, it's to never forget the masters. Those paintings hanging in galleries all over the world have a lot more to teach us about photography and film making than you would expect.

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