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8 - Light Summary

The best summary of our discussion about light are the pictures you take doing the above Light "Sensitivity Training" exercises.

Your photographs, placed in your visual notes folder, will illustrate the qualities of light.

• Color of the light

• Direction of the light

Which determines texture and volume

• Size of the light source

Which governs contrast

• Distance of the light from the subject

Evenness of the light in the scene

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