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The Importance Of Light In Photography

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"While photographing buildings in natural light the sun can bring out forms and texture. For teriors or object such as monuments inside a building. Lighting may needed to photograph it, though natural, available light may often better”. (Edwards, 2006)

4.3 SHADOW

Light is a creator of space effect in photographs. As light is inseparable from the shadow, its balanced use in photography is of great importance in space rendition. Shadows also provide the spatial impression of a picture.

"Sometimes a photographic image due to juxtaposition of light and shadows can become independent from picture elements and may form a strong graphic composition in itself" (Harvey, 1984))

4.4 TEXTURE

"Texture refers to the surface quality of objects" (Baily, …show more content…

If such scale indicators are Lacking no conclusion can be drawn regarding the actual size of the subject depicted unless Such scale less ness is intended to add suspense to rendition". (Baily, 1890)

The photographer by placing scale indicator at a suitable distance from camera can control the space impression of a photograph. Example- if a human figure as an indicator of scale appears as a tiny figure in back ground, it would make landscape appear wide and big whereas figures in foreground would make it look small.

Chapter 5: APPROACH AND COMPOSITION

The invention of photography was an issue related to the combination of two scientific principles that had already been known for quite some time. One of them was an optical principle that light, passing through a small hole on a wall of a dark room or camera obscura, projected an image on the opposite wall. (Harvey, 1984))

The other was a principle of chemistry that certain chemicals turned dark when exposed to the light. In that sense, what made the invention of photography possible was the expansion of capitalist culture, demanding cheap mechanical means for the reproduction of printed material. (Harvey, 1984))

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