Shadow Man

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WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS on the streets of Gotham?

If you’re gonna go Pulp Fiction, ya gotta have the light to go with it.

Hard, low, shadowy light turns my buddy Mark into a player in a noir novel. This is simple to do. Direction, angle, and color all play a role, and while that may seem to be a complex mix of elements, the digital camera and flash technology we have at our disposal nowadays makes sorting most of this out a series of pushed buttons. Of course, it helps to have read a lot of bad novels, and to have your sense of color and light spring from the pages of a Spawn comic book.

Get the camera angle. I always ...

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