Chiaroscuro Gallery special interests

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.
This gallery contains 12 selected pictures.

You can click on the pictures to open a lightbox with several features to see all the pics in this gallery on a big screen.
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1. Saint Mary Lake
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2. Jasper National Park
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3. Pontoon On The Klondike Hwy
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4. St Joseph's Catholic Mission
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5. Biker On Highway 7
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6. Gas Station
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7. Glen Highway
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8. Tok Cut-Off
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9. St. Andrews Church
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10. Virginia Falls
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11. Sun Point Nature Trail
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12. Athabasca Falls