Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . Exteriors. 45 Carefully sought, each well-designed feature will be foundto possess all the essentials of a picture. Line, tone, focus,gradation, and all the rest are there, and the photographercan bring them out and emphasise them, and even negativeor suppress much of what clashes and is bad. The accompanying illustrations are all from negativestaken primarily for the architectural student, but to supple-ment rather than to supplant the line drawing, and theypossess qualities which no line drawing could have, combined
Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . Exteriors. 45 Carefully sought, each well-designed feature will be foundto possess all the essentials of a picture. Line, tone, focus,gradation, and all the rest are there, and the photographercan bring them out and emphasise them, and even negativeor suppress much of what clashes and is bad. The accompanying illustrations are all from negativestaken primarily for the architectural student, but to supple-ment rather than to supplant the line drawing, and theypossess qualities which no line drawing could have, combinedwith an exactitude of proportion and perspective which adrawing in wash could feebly represent. Whatever hasbeen attained, there has been a striving after the pictorialalso, and the representation of the sensation inspired by thebuilding. The leading note of the porch at Dol is rest, of shelterand repose after exposure, but it is combined with desola-tion. On the other hand, the photograph of the door atBeauvais was made for quite a different purpose, awakingno emotion wh
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