Love the play with depth and high-key/low-key solution. From Wordnik.com. [Thank You Shelley Eshkar « Whatever] Reference
This chart is hand-painted in oil, using dots of pigment over a high-key gradated Yurmby wheel. From Wordnik.com. [Charting Pigments] Reference
Business opportunities worth about US5,389 billion have attracted over 500 local and international delegates to a high-key. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In the finished work, painted over a careful drawing after the benefit of models, the background stays high-key, but relatively cool. From Wordnik.com. [Mucha and Emotional Color] Reference
MGM worked toward the middle class and so they had a kind of high-key lighting to go with Jeannette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy and others. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood and the Movies] Reference
They chose a motif in full daylight, with the sun at their backs, and they both kept everything high-key, with the only dark accents under the log in the foreground. From Wordnik.com. [Side by Side] Reference
First, I grew up in a chlorophyll vacuum, without intense greens, and therefore sharp greens, high-key greens, electrical, toxic-level, Technicolor greens provide me with moments of considerable excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Another high-key review with credibility zero on the face of it. From Wordnik.com. [Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]] Reference
There's also a high-key set in the second beauty portfolio that is very cool. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
Overexpose against a high-key background to get an otherworldly - angelic effect. From Wordnik.com. [Photofocus] Reference
But then all of the hot spots in my edit leave the image with a failed high-key look. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie's Farm] Reference
It's a little high-key for my taste, but I was fascinated by his brushwork on the clothing. From Wordnik.com. [2 Blowhards] Reference
He used a high-key situation which often favors pretty girls or young children (in this case both.). From Wordnik.com. [Photofocus] Reference
This action gives your photos burnt and high-key effects (available for low - and high-resolution images). From Wordnik.com. [Smashing Magazine] Reference
In this high-key image, white patches on the figures bleed into the background, while the wide range of gray values is emphasized. From Wordnik.com. [DCist] Reference
Note owners Richard and Patty King teamed with several purveyors of food and drink to sponsor a low-key fundraiser and high-key birthday party. From Wordnik.com. [columbiatribune.com stories] Reference
First, Nolde is a superb colorist: Very few painters can employ such high-key combinations without causing their work to seem acidic and contrived. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
"If you look at professional joke tellers, they come in all fashions: low-key, high-key, deadpan, frenetic, excited, surreal - all different styles.". From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Bracket your exposures - maybe a bit of overexposure to give a high-key picture with burnt-out highlights, or underexposed for a darker more sombre look. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Likewise, like previous Olympus DSLRs, the E-30 lets you specify high-key or low-key gradation, shifting the overall tonal balance of the resulting images. From Wordnik.com. [DigitalCameraReview.com Digital Camera News and Reviews] Reference
The blown out highlights in the background could be - on the one hand distracting, but on the other, it could be just considered another high-key background. From Wordnik.com. [Photofocus] Reference
The Dutch painter's partiality to neo-expressionist modalities is apparent in his use of vibrant, high-key color, forceful mark-making, and cryptic iconography. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
It's easy for me to work in that beautiful, lush style because I've been working mostly in the film business for the last 20 years, creating high-key and high-intensity images for major films. From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
It works: The high-key lighting and the jagged VHS lines give the punches immediacy, and even if you know the outcome you're caught up in the suspense, expecting the worst because that's what Micky's used to. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
An etiquette point: I don't know what "freaking out" is for you, but when I say I freaked out on someone, I'm usually talking about some pretty high-key behavior on my part where I am not being particularly sensitive to the feelings of others. From Wordnik.com. [RHRealityCheck.org] Reference
British director Michael Apted - an astonishingly experienced figure whose feature film credits stretch way back to the early 70s - has rendered all this with near faultless scrupulousness; very much in the high-key, heavily structured Potter style. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The film shifts between dramatic staging with high-key lighting and quiet, moody tonalities in an extremely fluid manner, helped enormously by its immersive soundtrack that makes good use of sound effects and music (sea chanties and classical pieces) composed by Bush's father, Geoffrey, who taught at the Universities of Oxford and London and who passed away the year the film was released. From Wordnik.com. [f i l m j o u r n e y . o r g] Reference
White backdrop, high-key lighting. From Wordnik.com. [searching for meaning, money] Reference
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