How to Take Good Pictures » Dark Shadows http://www.howtotakegoodpictures.com Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Shadows and Highlights – The Mark of Excellence http://www.howtotakegoodpictures.com/shadows-and-highlights-the-mark-of-excellence/ http://www.howtotakegoodpictures.com/shadows-and-highlights-the-mark-of-excellence/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:03:42 +0000 Take Good Photos http://www.howtotakegoodpictures.com/shadows-and-highlights-the-mark-of-excellence/ Shadows and Highlights – The Mark of Excellence is a post from: How to Take Good Pictures

No related posts.]]> Shadows on the beachImage from Wikipedia“With that in mind, I would like to redefine highlights as: the brightest area in a photo in which one can still see detail. The same is true of a great shadow. A shadow is defined as the darkest area of a photo in which you can still see detail. If you see a picture of a cave opening and all is black, you don’t really have any shadows (you have darkness.) If you can see eyes and a hairy outline of some type of creature breathing the cool night air, you can honestly say you caught something lurking in the shadows.”

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