Lighting

One way to capture light is to surround it with darkness.  The photographs of Fan Ho, who explored Hong Kong in the 1950s, often use this pr...

The Japanese language has a word for light streaming through a forest:  komorebi.  Photo of komorebi by James Gurney The word refers to sunb...

Arthur Parton, Lake Scene, 1876 Several artists have accomplished this effect of a big gradation around the sun, which influences everything...

Did you notice that something is missing in this picture? It's the cast shadow from the horizontal sash of the window. Also, the shaft o...

New YouTube video ( Link to YouTube ) explains how to focus sunlight on one part of a plein-air painting using a spotlight underpainting. Th...

The guy holding the pole caught a fish. He says he doesn’t eat fish and gives them all away. Fishermen on Santa Monica pier,  1981 I made th...

Artificial light is rated according to its color temperature, listed as a Kelvin number (Celsius degrees).  When you heat up an incandescent...