Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . and at different dates. Somedominant feature or emotion needs to be seized, and anyothers which may be permitted to be present should besubordinate to that one and lead up to it. There must, infact, be focus in the pictorial and not the photographicsense to produce unity, the ordinary laws of pictorial com-position holding good just as much as in a landscape, whilethey have possibly more to tell. As an example of what is meant, two views are given ofDol Cathedral, being two portions of the same print from thesame nega
Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . and at different dates. Somedominant feature or emotion needs to be seized, and anyothers which may be permitted to be present should besubordinate to that one and lead up to it. There must, infact, be focus in the pictorial and not the photographicsense to produce unity, the ordinary laws of pictorial com-position holding good just as much as in a landscape, whilethey have possibly more to tell. As an example of what is meant, two views are given ofDol Cathedral, being two portions of the same print from thesame negative. Somehow, before being cut in two, the printwas unsatisfactory, and a little consideration showed that, 3 34 Architectural Photography. artistically, there were two foci and conflicting lines, onefocus being in the brightly lit windows of the transeptclerestory, and the other in the light patch over thewestern door, while the lines of the west front, vanishingtowards the right, clashed badly with those tending to-wards the other focus. Then, emotionally, the transept. West Front, Dol Cathedral. view, with the vertical lines of the buttresses and thetracery of the windows, tells of aspiration and delicateperception of the refined and beautiful, while the kplainwest front, with its massive flanking towers of a much laterdate, gives an i impression of awe-inspiring solidity. Inboth portions there is peace, with present neglect anddesolation expressed as a subsidiary emotion, but not
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