Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . a backgroundfor something more bold. Take heraldic devices, for ex-ample : we frequently see that plain shields are placedupon rich backgrounds of very fine work. Again, as quitea different example, take the nave of Westminster Abbey,, in which the strong main lines are softened by the wallbeing almost covered with a small pattern in low relief,which, too, serves the further purpose of giving textureto the whole building. Now the photographers treatmentnecessarily depends upon the purpose which the detail he isrenderi
Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . a backgroundfor something more bold. Take heraldic devices, for ex-ample : we frequently see that plain shields are placedupon rich backgrounds of very fine work. Again, as quitea different example, take the nave of Westminster Abbey,, in which the strong main lines are softened by the wallbeing almost covered with a small pattern in low relief,which, too, serves the further purpose of giving textureto the whole building. Now the photographers treatmentnecessarily depends upon the purpose which the detail he isrendering was intended to serve. There is always a greattemptation to exaggerate the lights and shades, in order torepresent more perfectly the great beauty of this delicatearabesque work or diaper carving as the case may be, 57 58 Architectural Photography, instead of which the obviously proper method of treatmentis to consider the subject photographed as a whole, andto keep the low relief in proper subservience. Of coursethis does not apply in all cases, and especially when a. Carved Oak Jug (Formerly in the Authors possession, now in South Kensington photograph is required for some technical illustrativepurpose, while there are also some subjects which arebetter treated in this way than as a whole. The wallslabs in the Assyrian galleries of the British Museum Detail and Ornament. 59 are a case in point. These were arranged in much thesame position at Korsabad or Koujunjik as they nowoccupy; that is, they formed a series of pictures roundnarrow rooms at the level of the eye, and were intendedto be examined in detail. Their relief, too, is wonder-
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