subject: Seeing The Shadows Another Photography Tip [print this page] Seeing The Shadows Another Photography Tip
Have you ever thought about taking pictures of a shadow? If not you should because they can make some really interesting photos.
One day I was out on my brother Jon's boat when I noticed that the thumbs up I was giving him was there on the dash board of the boat, so I took a picture of Jon with the shadow right next to him. You notice him at first but when you take a closer look the thumbs up shadow really catches your eye.
My daughter Lily was playing in the grass as her dad and I watched her. We were talking about how big she was getting and how proud we were . Then I saw our shadows on the lawn so what did I do? I took the picture of course and it's clear in the picture how proud we really were.
I was walking around my old high school with Justin and we were having a great time reminiscing about when he used to pick me up after school. I wanted to see where I use to wait for him and saw our shadows on this great big brick wall. I thought it would be cool to capture our shadows instead of the same old self portrait, you know the one where you hold the camera out in front of you. I took the first picture it was of us standing next to eachother. I wanted to make the picture interesting so I asked him to kiss me. That was making it look nicer but It needed something a heart! So we held hands and made one that came out very cool. If we had tried to take the picture of just our bodies I wouldnt of gotten anyone to know what we were doing but the shadow says it all.
So now you have more opportunities to take cool pictures. So look for the shadows, then work with them. You'll be amazed with what you can come up with.
