Hard light
Hard light creates depth
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Naoya Hatakeyama p. 41
Fay Godwin’s black-and-white photographs celebrate the ever-changing light and landscape of the British Isles. Avoiding the sugar coated lies of picture postcards, Godwin’s photographs instead show rural scenes interrupted by industry, both ancient and modern. Here a circle of standing stones seem engaged in a solemn meeting which has lasted three and a half thousand years.
Shadows tell us the whole truth about light. They show us where it’s coming from and how intense it is. In this image taken just after a hailstorm, a sudden swath of hard sunlight breaks through the clouds, creating dark shadows with razor-sharp edges.
The strong, decisive shadows that go hand in ...
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