Monday, February 27, 2012

Shadows in Photography

Shadows in pictures can be very interesting and work in different ways to enhance your pictures, but they can also ruin pictures. The third picture down shows both, to me it ruins the picture but to the photographer it enhanced the photo. I think there must be a story or a purpose behind the photo. 

In photography class offered here at the high school we battled shadows. Many photos were usless because of diferent shadows blocking different things. The biggest problem with shadows I found was when I was trying capture an optical illusion. I also had problems with capturing portraits outside without shadows across the face or body. Shadows are difficult to work with.

8 comments:

Coree K. said...

the shadow picture is very cool!!

Olivia Anderson said...

I love shadows. They are really cool and make for a great picture!

BrianG. said...

VEry nice pictures, I have always liked the use of shadows not only in still photgraphy, but in cinematography as well.

Ashley B. said...

I love shadow pictures with couples!

RKeenan said...

Good choice shadows are always interesting!

Courtney B. said...

I love trying to catch the perfect people shadow like the first image.

Hughes, S said...

You can create any design for shadows. All you need is to use your imagination.

Mrs. Rohla said...

Shadows can be pretty neat. It's hard to remember sometimes that people WANT them!