TSBD Doorway man - Oswald or Lovelady?

[Ralph Cinque]

[quote=Ralph Cinque]You're the one who brought up the lintel, not me. I don't think it's lintel shade. But, it's definitely shade that is causing the slivers of darkness that you see on both sides of his t-shirt.

"Where exactly did that undefined shade come from?"

It came from the same place that the shade over the t-shirt of this other guy came from. And, there is no way we are talking about "sunlite skin" on Doorman. You are forgetting something, Doyle: that Marsh photo isn't the only one around. There are others, and they have to be reckoned with as well.

Here is one of the most widely circulated and visible versions of Doorman. Look at it! Are you going to tell me that that's sunlite skin? That's t-shirt, Buster, and you know it! That t-shirt is climbing right up his shoulder where it belongs.

And, to answer your question, the dark vee under his neck is shade, and it's darker precisely because it's skin that's being shaded. The shade over the t-shirt is lighter, that is, less dark, because it started as white t-shirt, and so it had farther to go to get dark. Think of it like mixing paints. If I mix brown with black (analogy to shaded skin) it's going to be darker than if I mix white with black (analogy to shaded t-shirt). It's the difference between tan skin and white cotton. Both are shade of different intensity because of the underlying medium. Shade is never going to obliterate, to blackness, a white t-shirt.

So, look at this picture of Doorman and point out the "sunlite skin" on this one, Doyle. And by the way, what about that button on Lovelady's flap?