Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . Street Views. 67 graphy can best express, infinitely better than it can therestless activity of modern life; unless the photograph be of. A Street in Dinan, Brittany. the animated kind, and then the result is a mechanicalrather than an artistic expression of activity. To turn from generalities to particulars, it will usuallybe found advisable to close the view, as the technical 68 Architectural Photography. phrase is, with some prominent object to which, whether itbe near or distant, all else leads, and this is partic
Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . Street Views. 67 graphy can best express, infinitely better than it can therestless activity of modern life; unless the photograph be of. A Street in Dinan, Brittany. the animated kind, and then the result is a mechanicalrather than an artistic expression of activity. To turn from generalities to particulars, it will usuallybe found advisable to close the view, as the technical 68 Architectural Photography. phrase is, with some prominent object to which, whether itbe near or distant, all else leads, and this is particularlynecessary if both sides of the street are included in theview. Three illustrations are given of this. St. JacquesTower at Antwerp is in the foreground, and to have shownboth sides of the street would almost necessarily thereforehave been a mistake; but the church in the street view atDinan is in the middle distance, and Antwerp Cathedralspire is in the background. These pronounced features,too, give an apparent reason for the picture—invaluable,nay, absolutely imperative, in all cases. Sometimes streetsand groups of houses, which are fascinatingly pretty in theircolour and their light and shade, whe
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