Showing Light

 When you want to emphasise a Light area, you have to put a contrasting Dark area next to it.   Obviously this works in reverse too.

This sketch shows how that works....

TONAL VALUES

Having trouble finding the Lights in a scene?

Example this photo for instance:

THEN  LITERALLY  SQUINT

AND THE LIGHT AREA WILL JUMP OUT AT YOU.

Happens to be 3 areas in the above photo:

1. the sky

                             2. the reflected light under the bridge

                       3. the strip of grass that runs across the scene

 

plus by Squinting

the DARKS will be very obvious too.

SO REMEMBER TO SQUINT AT A SCENE

IT WILL HELP YOU SO MUCH WITH TONAL VALUES 


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