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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Now that's interesting!
ReplyDeleteHello Ellen,
ReplyDeleteThanks 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteIt has to be a challenge for a painter to produce the truth in shadow-color, not just by adding black....