I know the difficulty states that shadows can’t be the main focus of the shot. I have a macro pic of an ant on the other side of a leaf backlit by the sun. It casts a nice silhoutte – but it’s a shadow. Acceptable or not?
Kinda like this one I used for Mmmm bokeh. http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Ant_2836a.jpg
I have others if this one is not OK.
I’m going to defer to the real experts here, but since the tradition is for the person who suggested the theme to chime in when issues of clarification come up I’ll go ahead and post my opinion. Here goes… 🙂
Given the way that shot works I’m not sure I’d call the image on the leaf a shadow. It seems to me that the leaf is acting as a filter to blur the image of the ant’s body instead. If you define a shadow as the lack of reflected light caused by an object between the light source and the field reflecting the light, then you can’t really have a shadow when taking a photo where there’s a transparent object between the camera and the subject of the photo (meaning the ant). For instance, if the picture was of an ant on the far side of a sheet of rice paper, with the light source behind that, would it be a shadow? I think this is the same thing, so I think it’s not a shadow and therefore OK for the contest. Without multiple light sources I can’t see how you could see the actual ant and some different “shadow” of the ant when a shot is setup that way.
Again, that just the opinion of a slightly OCD computer nerd, so experts on photography please chime in if I’m smokin’ crack here…
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