Editing Shadow (section)

== Photography ==
{{Unsourced-section|date=March 2025}}[[File:Moonlight shadow.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Moonlight]] shadow of a photographer]]
In photography, which is essentially recording patterns of light, shade, and color, "highlights" and "shadows" are the brightest and darkest parts, respectively, of a scene or image. [[Photographic exposure]] must be adjusted (unless special effects are wanted) to allow the [[Photographic film|film]] or [[sensor]], which has limited [[dynamic range]], to record detail in the highlights without them being washed out, and in the shadows without their becoming undifferentiated black areas.

On [[satellite imagery]] and [[aerial photograph]]s, taken vertically, tall buildings can be recognized as such by their long shadows (if the photographs are not taken in the tropics around noon), while these also show more of the shape of these buildings.