"Venice: Under the Rialto Bridge" (1909) is almost equal parts dark shadow and blinding light.
And a slanted window provides architectural interest as well as providing endless incarnations of light and shadow.
Caravaggio's artistic style, self-taught and hugely inventive, is instantly recognisable stark, vivid and naturalistic, with emphasis on light and shadow, or chiaroscuro.
Making use of seven shooters simultaneously, the system photographs the object while projecting various light and shadow combinations in order to determine the ware's geometry.
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Caravaggio has begun here to master what became one of his celebrated hallmarks, the use of chiaroscuro (light and shadow) for both theatrical and formal effects.
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The unstageability that has so often deterred directors in the past was overcome by a masterly use of light and shadow on a stage which was kept almost completely bare.
We have to bring this shadow economy into the light so that everybody is held accountable -- businesses for who they hire, and immigrants for getting on the right side of the law.
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Filming footfalls and glances, fados and discos, and the transcendent absurdities that take place on movie sets, Green captures with passionate attention to light and shadow, to faces and voices, and to the electric thrill of the touch the mystic union of life and art, and honors the majesty of the actress, who breaks through boundaries in both realms.
With red and white light, the shadow of the object appears in the complementary color -- cyan -- and the shadows change as your angle of vision changes.
Will this shadow world ever see the light of day?
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After a minute, I sensed the light shifting and her shadow falling over me.
So there we are, the grotesque grabbing on to beauty, beauty embraced by the grotesque, the light surrounded by the shadow, our lives rounded by a little sleep.
With delicate observation and quietly intense pathos, Dreyer captures the actors in a dappled light and a depth of shadow that seem to illuminate his characters from within.
Walsall Council said it had lit up the box to "get even more attention as the light brings it out of the shadow".
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The image - of the shadow cast by the Moon as it blocks the light and particles - was shown off at a meeting of the American Physical Society.
The effect is preternatural--bringing an immediacy to the past that is paradoxically fresher than the present--and is accomplished with careful attention to the texture of materials and the play of light on surfaces, modulated with projected shadow.
Silverio turns east along the coast, which looms, a barely discernible shadow, pricked here and there by individual points of light.
Shadow Minister for Health Stephen O'Brien said the report shed light on the delayed and "ill-planned" NHS IT programme which the government had "constantly tried to shield from public scrutiny".
At this Easter season, British and Irish leaders have followed the admonition of Luke to give light to them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide their feet into the way of peace.
And in March, good light stopped play between New Zealand and England when a troublesome shadow had encroached onto the pitch, making it hard for the batsmen to see the ball.
It was a day that could have happened only in a town like ours: the sun was bright, warm even, but there was a chemical haze in the air, a blurred, dusty quality to the light that we knew from having lived so long in the shadow of the works.
Since atoms have well understood light absorption properties, predictions can be made about the depth of a shadow cast, improving communication between the individual atoms performing calculations.
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Shadow, a drone used by the American, Australian and Swedish armies, is too light to be able to carry Hellfires and is thus, at the moment, restricted to reconnaissance duties.
The Tories shot back that it had been the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls who, as City Minister in the late 1990s, had boasted of light touch regulation and missed a chance to introduce tougher controls.
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