Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . ndit is better to tilt and swing to include high objects andcut off foreground, than to use a wide-angle lens, and sonecessitate much trimming of the prints at bottom andat sides. Brick Vaulting to Market under Cloth Hall, Ypres. CHAPTER VIII. THE INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL. THE title of this chapter may sound dry and uninterest-ing ; but the subject is one which has two sides. Thetechnicalities of building material, their strength, weather-resisting properties, and the like are certainly not suit-able for discussion here.
Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . ndit is better to tilt and swing to include high objects andcut off foreground, than to use a wide-angle lens, and sonecessitate much trimming of the prints at bottom andat sides. Brick Vaulting to Market under Cloth Hall, Ypres. CHAPTER VIII. THE INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL. THE title of this chapter may sound dry and uninterest-ing ; but the subject is one which has two sides. Thetechnicalities of building material, their strength, weather-resisting properties, and the like are certainly not suit-able for discussion here. On the other hand, the generaleffect produced by a completed building is largely due tothe materials employed in its construction, and so likewise 69 70 Architectural Photography. is any photograph of the building influenced thereby;and all this is of importance to the photographer, andnot without its interest. Speaking broadly, the qualities which materials mainlyconfer are texture and colour. As walling materials,marble and brickwork may be each equally suitable, under. Timber Roof to the Boctcherie, Ghent. certain given conditions, from a structural point of view ;but how utterly different is the effect of their employment!And the photographer who seeks to represent this effect; ishe to treat the marble and the brick alike ? Think whereinthe difference lies. The marble is in large blocks with finejoints, highly polished, reflecting light in every shadow,delicate and pure in tone. The brickwork, on the contrary, The Influence of Material. 71 is made up of many small blocks with coarse joints, is ofmore or less rough surface, absorbs light even where mostexposed, and is irregular in tone. Thus the marble, withits high finish, invites the record of every detailed beauty,while the brickwork, consisting piecemeal of nothing muchelse than an aggregation of faults, needs to be taken as anentire mass, in which the faults merge and mellow. Iron Gate to Baptistery, Collegiale, Huy, B
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