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Figure 5-15.–Shapes used in composition.
simple when a distinction is made between the two
different ways three-dimensional objects appear: as
positive, or occupied space (volume) or as negative, or
unoccupied space.
unit placed at the camera, you only symbolize empty or
negative space; however, a sense of depth is provided
because of increasing darkness toward the back of the
shop. Occupied or positive space (the machines) is
If you make a picture to show the entire machine
front-lighted and appears shadowless and flat. On the
shop aboard a repair ship using only one powerful flash
other hand, if you use a series of lights along the sides
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