Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . OUTDOOR OPERATIONS. 207 few docks and thistles, with the bright sun-ray glancing from the tufted grassto the gray ivy-grown stump of the gnarled pollard, is worth a hecatomb ofsuch things. ure, though he has evidently a quick eye enough to guide him in taking advantage ofaccidental arrangements, and the power of methodizing his ideas. All these you mustacquire by study and hardpractice. Cannot drive sheep whereyou want em in a photo-graph, you say? Well, I have
Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . OUTDOOR OPERATIONS. 207 few docks and thistles, with the bright sun-ray glancing from the tufted grassto the gray ivy-grown stump of the gnarled pollard, is worth a hecatomb ofsuch things. ure, though he has evidently a quick eye enough to guide him in taking advantage ofaccidental arrangements, and the power of methodizing his ideas. All these you mustacquire by study and hardpractice. Cannot drive sheep whereyou want em in a photo-graph, you say? Well, I have seen sheepbetter grouped in a photo-graph than these are. It isthis class of photographs, myfriends, that is going to liftyour art up to the top of itsladder. Remember what Isay.—C. Walton Hill. It is to be feared chat muchof the indulgence in extra,neous appliances is the resultof doing the work by theeasiest methods, irrespectiveof truth and taste. If therebe difficulties in any department. not resort to spurious let us tight with them, andmethods because they happen to be easier or more convenient. I have always regarded photographic art and its requirements as being more allied to dramatic art than to that ofFig. 208 fine art. For the construction of a scene, having severalfigures in it, see how carefullythe arrangement of them hasbeen made by actors, each in-dividual, each group of figures,varying in position and action,and this every night repro-duced because the subject hasbeen fully felt and do hope the day is not fardistant when stage effects maybe photographed. Indeed, itwould be worth the effort ifrehearsals were made in the
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