According to our best observations, light is
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Light’s counterpart
The mastery of light, I discovered, isn’t complete without understanding the other half of the equation: shadow. With that realization came valuable lessons in how certain kinds of light plus the incorporation of shadow can vastly affect not only the appearance of an image but also the feeling and mood the image evokes.
I began to observe and study light all the time, mostly without my camera in hand, and years later I still do. In conversation with my youngest son, I’ll notice the catchlights in his eyes and how, in a particular light, his eyes are clear like a deep blue lake.
As I watch one of my sons reading in bed by flashlight, I’ll see how the shadows shift, expand and minimize with the tilt of his head and the movement of the flashlight.
I notice how shadows and highlights curve and spread throughout my home, varying with the time of the day. I notice the rim light around my husband as he chops firewood among the trees. I notice how the light in our basement quickly and beautifully falls off into the shadows.
A preoccupation
No matter what I’m doing, I constantly contemplate how I could use the natural light that’s illuminating the scene.
Oftentimes, finding the right light is as simple as waiting until my subject’s face tilts just a bit more toward the light source or encouraging the subject to adjust his body this way or that, or simply repositioning myself; all the while I’m noting how the highlights and shadows change across the subject’s face.
A great thing for us students of light and shadow is that we’re able to study them wherever we are because they’re around us all the time. We recognize that some light is comfortable and intriguing, and some light is harsh and overpowering.
When we realize what we see with our eyes will be what we see through the lens, then incorporating that desirable mix of light and shadow into our images becomes much more instinctive.
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