Columns viewed against a background of white sky appear of smaller diameter than when they are viewed against a dark background.
It has appeared to the writer that the illusion is apparent even for white letters upon a dark background.
The resulting picture gives us a light impression of the leaves on a dark background, but if so desired, the print thus obtained can be used as a negative.
The other plan consists in making an ordinary negative, using preferably a dark background.
In printing we get a white statuette portrait on a dark background.
But if this shadow lies against a dark background, the edge of the shaded part will appear lighter than before, and the deepest shade will appear between the edge and the light at the point o.
If you look at a body of which the illuminated portion lies and ends against a dark background, that part of the light which will look brightest will be that which lies against the dark [background] at d.
I thought I saw a human shape standing out from the dark background of the room.
As he walked slowly up the footpath which led to the garden gate, he could see in the distance a white face standing out against the dark background of trees.
All were clothed in black, and this array of human faces, lit up against a dark background, so dazzled the eyes of the four witnesses of this extraordinary scene that not one figure was recognisable in the crowd.
Leyland was painted in this way ten years before, when Whistler proved the truth of Baudelaire's assertion that the great colourist can get colour from a black coat, a white shirt, against a dark background.
She stands against a dark background, and she lives in her frame.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dark background" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
