Detail of two girls in white dresses lighting paper lanterns among lilies at dusk; the left lantern glows orange-pink, and the pale one in front of the girl at right lights her face from below.

Concept · Seeing Light

Two Lights at Once

When two sources light a scene, each makes its own lights and shadows, often of different color.

Cross warned that daylight and lamplight together make effects so varied that rules become "impossible".

  • Sort out which surfaces face which source.
  • A warm source and a cool one make the difference easy to see.

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