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We all walk attached to a shadow. Some to a very long one...
Barcelona airport,
Barcelona, Spain.
Taken with a 3G iPhone using Camera Bag app (Mono style)
Polesden Lacey, Surrey. England. Taken with a Leica III Black Nickel (1934) + Voigtlander Color Skopar 50 2.5. Ilford HP5 Film © DSAM7 all rights reserved.
I couldn't resist the beauty of light and shadow here.
Sony A99 + Sony 28-75mm f2.8 SAL2875 SAM lens
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Walking around the township of Bright with my friend, Dan, and found an old house to experiment with certain shadow and light. I noticed Dan in this doorway and noticed that the light seemed to hit his outline, so I managed to take this shot. Happy for any feedback. Cheers.
Take a turn and see his smile
Made of nothing but loneliness
Just take a walk and be a friend
To the shadow man...
We saw the shadows of the morning light.
The shadows of the evening sun.
Until the shadows and the light were one
A few days ago, I woke uncharacteristically early, and couldn't get back to sleep. It was around 5am and just starting to get light. Rather than lie there restlessly, I got up and wandered into my office. I opened the curtains to see the sun peeking through the leaves on the trees opposite—it was only just above the horizon and on a level with my office window. As I turned back into the room, I noticed that the sun shining through the leaves was casting an intricate pattern of shadows on the back of my office door, rippling in the gentle morning breeze. I picked up the video camera that was on my desk, sat it pointing at the patterns, and recorded the slow progression of the sunlight across the door. After about five minutes, the show was over. The sun had risen higher in the sky and the shadows faded. I turned off the camera and went back to bed.
One evening I was intent on photographing a row of coast giant cypress. In trying to find a vantage point I looked down to keep from tripping on rough ground. This is what I saw at my feet. The painted centerline of the rural road can be faintly seen beneath the shadows.
'Shadow lifting' is a very popular term used in many internet photography forums such as dpreview. The usefulness of this is hotly debated as well.
If you are not familiar with the term this is what it means.
In high contrast situations when you have set your exposure to preserve highlights (setting sun in this case) you end up with some very dark areas. In the past you couldn't do much with these dark areas because if you wanted to make these areas bright in Photoshop then all you got was a noisy mess. The situation is not that bad now. Exmor sensor made by Sony and used mainly by Sony and Nikon, is best in this regard. See the next picture.