. Portrait . No. 2—Heated at 60° F. Developed at once PORTRAIT. Xo. 2A—Heated at 60° F. Held twenty-two hours l^fore developed PORTRAIT Composition and the Functions of the Eye The Laws of Vision as Applied to Portraiture By Sidney Allan X. the perception of light and shade THE correct, forceful and natural distribution oflight and shade is the best technical means avail-able to give pictorial qualities to a portrait. Theclearer and the more balanced the division of light anddark planes is made, the surer is the composition of apictorial effect. But it must be utilized as the mainfactor, more
. Portrait . No. 2—Heated at 60° F. Developed at once PORTRAIT. Xo. 2A—Heated at 60° F. Held twenty-two hours l^fore developed PORTRAIT Composition and the Functions of the Eye The Laws of Vision as Applied to Portraiture By Sidney Allan X. the perception of light and shade THE correct, forceful and natural distribution oflight and shade is the best technical means avail-able to give pictorial qualities to a portrait. Theclearer and the more balanced the division of light anddark planes is made, the surer is the composition of apictorial effect. But it must be utilized as the mainfactor, more important than any accessory or otherattribute. It will then by sheer force of its contrastmake the composition. The eye enjoys the alternate play of light and darkand its work consists principally of a hardly perceptiblerepetition of the opening and contraction of the detail is generally drowned in the shadows, inpictures like Rembrandts paintings, that are strictlyon the chiaroscural order, the ciliary muscle is at rest,and the muscles revolving
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