Casting Shadows
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The ill-fated pair comes sheltered in soft black sponge, and packaged in a smooth matte-black box. Sheathed in a casting shadows sleeve complete with interactive pop ups — a nism teeth shield "love ends" and a noop pain gate "time to harvest", waiting for you to test the balance of their drastic detachment. In stores worldwide — spring The perfect playmate, nism, gives glee to the noop with his slithering sucker hugs.
His elated mood, always clear in his colourful aura. Before long, their welcoming surroundings fade to illusion. All the life that exists between them becomes withered and gnarled. Every drop of moisture escapes into the shuddering air. Each of them manages to cling to a tiny flake of earth, before being hurled around a cycle of colliding matter. Draining into a dead gray, nism's once supple limbs become stiff and dry. They catch sight of each other for an instant, but then continue to fall deep into the abyss. Set it up and let the paw!
On a hilltop, the two friends sit in whispering silence. Bliss too good for words. Floating on hopes, they bask in the lazy spring heat. Blanket clouds disperse from above.
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The noop's wavering sky paw! A shimmering outline cuts around the edges of their soaring observer.
Together the noop and nism pass back into the light, awakened. If only this moment would last forever. In the middle of nowhere, two beings are pulled apart. A silent force invading the space between them. Memories taunt the burdened soul, drowning in the shadows. The elements gather above.
Abruptly dropped back into daylight. Huddled in misery once again. You can also create colored shadows.
Normally, shadows are black or gray. However, you can create green shadows by casting a shadow with a red light and illuminating the shadow with white light. As you add the white light, the shadow will turn green. As you see, light will either color the shadows or brighten them, and the resulting color is the complementary color to the light that is blocked to cast the shadow. The complement of red is green and vice versa.
I write mostly thrillers - though I have done some teen romance stories too. If you are able to control all of the light falling on a surface, the shadows that you cast will be very dark and dense. They stalk suburban neighborhoods night after night, ransacking houses for jewelry and sweet valuables. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to its author, Runeslinger, and this blog, Casting Shadows, with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Tempting Templates Pattern projections are another way to cast creative and beautiful shadows. A set of c-o-a-r-s-e type leaves complete this scenery, full of desperation. Every drop of moisture escapes into the shuddering air.
For a blue shadow, use orange light: Shadow Tools There are a number of tools you may want in your shadow-casting tool kit. A cookie or gobo short for go between is a piece of black foamcore, plywood or other sturdy material, shaped or cut to create a patterned shadow when placed between a light and the background to be shaded. Windowpanes, doorways, leaf patterns and fence-rows are just a few of the many types of gobos you might want to use as background shadows.
Another type of gobo is a small metal slide used in a pattern projector or theatre leko. This metal slide has intricate designs cut into the metal, so that it can project tree leaves, fireworks, company logos or thousands of other designs. The leko, which is an ellipsoidal light fixture, is capable of focusing the design shadow very sharply on any surface. Another shadow-casting tool is the flag. This is a piece of black foamcore or metal-framed opaque black cloth used to place shadows on the background and control your light sources.
Dots are another useful tool. Like flags, only smaller, dots are small circular pieces of metal or foamcore used to precisely place shadows at particular points in your image. Casting Shadows Now that you know the facts about shadows and the tools used to manipulate and cast them, how do you use that knowledge to make your images look even better?
Let's take a look at some simple but standard lighting situations you may encounter. You are doing an interview, and you want to create an interesting background, but you don't have any nice drops or props to use. How about a nice dappled shadow background to add that three-dimensional look? Set up your typical three-point lighting with a nice soft light for the key, a back light opposite the key giving your talent's hair and shoulders a nice rim light, and finally a bounce card to provide a little extra fill light to fill in any dark shadows on the face.
Set up another light so that it is focused on the blank back wall behind your talent. Cut an irregular branching organic design in a piece of black foamcore and place it between the light and the wall. Adjust the placement, size and sharpness of the shadow by moving it closer and further away from the wall, always making sure it is out of camera shot. Look through the viewfinder to decide on the look you want. Simple as that, you have turned a flat ugly wall into a three-dimensional background. What if you are shooting a movie and want the shadow of a doorway or windowpane in the background?
Set up your shot and place a small, hard light so that it lights up the area on the set where you want the shadow. Place a door-shaped or windowpane-shaped gobo as close to the set as possible, keeping it out of the shot. Adjust its position to achieve the desired effect. Keep in mind that you don't need a real-sized window to create the shadow.
The further away the gobo, the bigger the shadow. Use a hard light, so that the shadow has a good sharp edge. If you are shooting a scene and notice that there is a glare on a TV or computer screen, you can set up a flag just out of the shot, to create a shadow on the screen.
Adjust the size of the flag by moving it towards and away from the computer.
You can also turn it and twist it to conform to the shape of the screen. Dots can also be used to reduce or eliminate unwanted spectral highlights bright reflections from metal objects. Place a dot on a small arm connected to a light stand and cast its shadow on the bright spot. Tempting Templates Pattern projections are another way to cast creative and beautiful shadows.