Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Pink Shadow

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Shadows

are

black.

Right?


Not at all.

The impressionists with their focus on color emphasized this.

Renoir said, “No shadow is black. It always has a color.

This hit me when I took this picture of a tree casting a shadow on a wall in Colonia del Sacramento.

The shadow was PINK!

The reason for such a pastel shadow is the light of the setting sun allowing the color of the wall to permeate the shadow.

PINK INK!

Canon 5D Mk II, f4, 70-200mm, 1/2000, Colonia del Sacramento,100925

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4 Comments:

At September 30, 2010 at 12:37 PM , Blogger Ellen said...

Now that's interesting!

 
At October 1, 2010 at 12:14 AM , Blogger Barry Natusch said...

Hello Ellen,

Thanks for your comments. I dropped in to see your blog, Undertones of Universal Understanding! I'll be back to it when I get a moment, traveling for the next few days.

 
At October 19, 2010 at 11:37 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

When our eyes was caught by the beautiful color, it just like we get into a wonderful garden, where filled with varieties flowers, can quietly enjoy the paradise of color, that's in your blog, nicely and warmly.

 
At December 10, 2010 at 6:37 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I discovered colored shadows twice. Sky-lit blue shadows in snow, and pine-tree needle shadows on a wall next to a Christmas tree with colored blinking lights.
It has to be a challenge for a painter to produce the truth in shadow-color, not just by adding black....

 

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