From the course: Photo Critique of the Week

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Looking at images where shadows are the emphasis

Looking at images where shadows are the emphasis

From the course: Photo Critique of the Week

Looking at images where shadows are the emphasis

- You know, photography really is about light and shadow, but I don't want to talk about light, I want to talk about shadow. Hi, I'm Steve Simon, the passionate photographer, and welcome to another episode of Photo Critique of the Week. And as I said, I want to talk about shadows, because I think that shadow can be a very powerful subject matter, and to prove it, I brought some examples to show you, and that we can talk about, and that we can learn from. I'll just quickly run through some of these images, and you know what? A lot of these images are really strong images, and the commonality, or the one thing that they all kind of have is strong light and dark components, and not necessarily a lot in between. So when you're dealing with light and shadow, and generally high contrast situations, it means some technical things have to be taken care of, but also the composition has to be really strong in order to accentuate what it is that you're showing here. Though there are shadows in…

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