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Old 12-03-2003, 03:18 PM   #8
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During my recent museum visits, I paid attention to values. Distance also steals values.

A more distant object will have a narrow range of values. It may be a brightly lit object, or it may be in shadow, but it will not have a full range of values, while the main subject often does.

Sometimes this device is used on closer objects, not to convey distance, but to de-emphasize them.
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