The Content of Shadows

4 years 2 months ago #673126 by Tom-Dinning
I’ve never had a mentor, teacher, Google, forum or YouTube to teach me about photography.
I went to a class when I bought a digital camera. I think I annoyed the instructor.
The plan has been to take pictures of anything and learn from that.

Some of those “anything”s stuck with me. Maybe they taught me something I could use. In most cases the result is purely visual. Sometimes they stimulate me to write.

Its hard to explain. David Adams once said it’s not possible to teach someone how to take a photograph: you just have to do it.

Im inclined to agree










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4 years 2 months ago #673127 by Tom-Dinning
Shadows can be seen as an issue to be dealt with, something to penetrate, to find the detail.
They can be avoided or included. Without them the image will often lose depth, interest, intrigue. 
The contrast they provide enables us to see the image as a whole, a part of an entire space. Shadows separate light from light. Shadows can be used to hide or expose, partly hide or partly expose. Shadows help to define outlines and contoured.
Shadows are the BLACK when there is WHITE.
Shadows are all the grey scales from 1 to 255.
without shadows we would live in a much fatter and less interesting world.










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3 years 11 months ago #682777 by Steve Rodriguez
Love the set! Awesome work with the shadows and the shapes. 


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3 years 11 months ago #683211 by Carl Mendez
The first one is really nice! 


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3 years 11 months ago #683313 by Joshua Atkins
The second set is haunting! 


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3 years 11 months ago #683497 by Breanna Ellington
Good light play!


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3 years 10 months ago #683613 by Kelly Emery
I want to make something like this too. 


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3 years 10 months ago #683942 by Eshan Rachit
Really nice set. The DR is really good. 


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3 years 10 months ago #684051 by Stephen Graham
The series is really admirable. I like the render of the shots. 


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3 years 10 months ago #684560 by Lauren Grant
Yeah! I think that you slay this field. 


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3 years 10 months ago #684991 by Hannah Williams
Nicely done set. I like the composition of the B&W here.


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3 years 10 months ago #685465 by Suni Park
I really like how you do your sets. I love the composition a lot. Well done. 


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3 years 10 months ago #685615 by Alyssa Briggs
Well-rendered set. Unique and very creative. 


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3 years 9 months ago #687482 by Sarit Kevesh
One of the best sets here. Well done! 


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