Luminous Light
Luminous Light is an advantageous element found in many successful fine art photographs. It is often described as light that is shining, beaming, emitting, glowing or reflecting, in a specific direction, or onto an object or scene. Other complementary descriptive terms include brilliant, bedazzling, lustrous, and radiant. Luminous Light in a photograph can also send a message of spirituality or enlightenment. Obviously, for photographers, and for fine art photography buyers, these are qualities we might like to have in our photographs.
To complement Luminous Light, we need to add the contrast of varying levels of the light intensity to our photographic composition. In this months photograph "Sunbeams on the Beach", the morning sunrise shines above the top of the clouds while the heavenly sunbeams radiating downward and outward are filtered through the morning clouds. The Atlantic Ocean waves and surf provide depth and color contrast, as the foreground of golden shining sands almost matches the sky in tonal range. The added contrast of the clouds and oceans shadows produces a more pleasing photograph.