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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
Take a turn and see his smile
Made of nothing but loneliness
Just take a walk and be a friend
To the shadow man...
Looking aroud the house for ideas when this caught my eye on my bedroom floor. Caused from the strong light coming through my window blinds
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.
I was having a slow day in the woods, so I used the subjects at hand. The snow was far too deep and soft for the tripod, so this was the closest that I came to taking a selfie.
I was sitting at my computer at work and I happened to look up and I saw Rudy's shadow on the wall in front me. He's looking out the window from his cat tree
1953 Vincent Black Shadow Touring Model, in its day it was "the world’s fastest standard motorcycle"
Pablo Neruda
Sonnet XVII (100 Love Sonnets, 1960)
I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
Shadows from the fence complement the 'herringbone' brick pattern. Garden on the grounds of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia
We have had a couple of really weird late spring/early summer storms in northern California in the last couple of weeks. They have left us with some really interesting skies, including this one from last week.
This was shot at the top of Brentwood's Shadow Lakes community, on a road that splits the golf course. There were great clouds all around, but the layer of low clouds that was bumping up against Mt. Diablo kept the color isolated. I took a few more shots looking west, and a few looking north. Because of the way the clouds break up once they travel east of Diablo, it made for really different images. I might post some of the others if I get a chance.
The colours of the picture are edited. But the shadow isn't. I was playing with my light and then I got this result.
Lighting Essentials Workshop.
Shot in full sun, which was giving f/16 @ 1/200 (the f/16 rule). The speedlights were set to give an exposure of f/22 to overpower the sun and I synch'd at 1/160 with Cactus triggers. Three lights: one in front of the model, illuminating her face, one to camera left and one to camera right.
Photoshop: I opened this image in ACR and "yikes!" all the shadows were clipped to black. So I set about bringing up the exposure...then it dawned on me: we deliberately set this shot up to drop out the background. So I left the exposure alone and let the background fall out. Contrast adjustment with curves, some skin smoothing and blemish removal. Light sharpening.
Model: Kirsten (Model Mayhem #635766)
MUA: Markita Marie (Model Mayhem #455400)