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Light — Science & Magic, 6th Edition
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Light — Science & Magic, 6th Edition

by Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua, Robin Reid
April 2021
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 54m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Light — Science & Magic, 6th Edition
50 SURFACE APPEARANCES
THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS AN EDITOR
Photographic lighting deals mainly with the extremes: the highlights and
the shadows. When we are happy with the appearance of these two, we
are likely to be pleased with the middle range also. Highlight and shadow
together reveal form, shape, and depth. But highlight alone is usually enough
to reveal what the surface of an object is like.
In this chapter, we will concern ourselves primarily with highlight and
surface. Most of our example subjects will be at—two dimensional, or
nearly so. In Chapter 5, we will complicate matters a bit with three-dimen-
sional subjects and a more detailed discussion of shadow.
In the previous chapter, we saw that all surfaces produce both diuse ...
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ISBN: 9781000342673