(in art or photography) bright light, usually beamed obliquely, used to reveal such features as texture and detail.
（艺术、摄影为突出细部而采用的）斜射强光
Example sentencesExamples
These involuntary sculptures were photographed on glass and subjected to a raking light so that they seem to hover just above the ground, casting a shadow.
The figure is seen in raking light against an impenetrable blackness.
The resulting his paintings is a harsh, raking light that strikes across the composition, illuminating parts of it while plunging the rest into deep shadow.
Sculpted by the raking light, the bathers are russet and gold in the sun, vibrant in blue and red two-piece swimsuits, trunks, a maillot, absorbed in the folding of towels and blankets.
The raking light emphasizes the uneven terrain of their bodies, covered with a seemingly infinite number of very fine wrinkles.
Definition of raking light in US English:
raking light
noun
(in art or photography) bright light, usually beamed obliquely, used to reveal such things as texture and detail.
（艺术、摄影为突出细部而采用的）斜射强光
Example sentencesExamples
Sculpted by the raking light, the bathers are russet and gold in the sun, vibrant in blue and red two-piece swimsuits, trunks, a maillot, absorbed in the folding of towels and blankets.
The raking light emphasizes the uneven terrain of their bodies, covered with a seemingly infinite number of very fine wrinkles.
These involuntary sculptures were photographed on glass and subjected to a raking light so that they seem to hover just above the ground, casting a shadow.
The resulting his paintings is a harsh, raking light that strikes across the composition, illuminating parts of it while plunging the rest into deep shadow.
The figure is seen in raking light against an impenetrable blackness.