Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . to forewarn, and where, toget the full sense of the pic-ture your highest tripod orthe top of a bath-housemust be used. In the attempt to get aninteresting foreground, thephotographer is sometimesled to overdo. In otherwords, crowd in too might help you to mymeaning by referring youto a picture that is very beautiful, and yet, I consider,faulty in the direction I speakof I allude to Mr. D. M. Arm-strongs painting of The Har-bor Bar, Mount Desert. (
Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . to forewarn, and where, toget the full sense of the pic-ture your highest tripod orthe top of a bath-housemust be used. In the attempt to get aninteresting foreground, thephotographer is sometimesled to overdo. In otherwords, crowd in too might help you to mymeaning by referring youto a picture that is very beautiful, and yet, I consider,faulty in the direction I speakof I allude to Mr. D. M. Arm-strongs painting of The Har-bor Bar, Mount Desert. () It is true, this is a bar,and with such accessory ob-jects as belong to a bar, yetit strikes me with the feelingthat there are too many objectscrowded in, and the effect ofthe whole gives trouble to botheye and mind to puzzle out theartists reason for their intro-duction. The swirl of the lines Fig. 190 Wilsons quarter century in photography. 87. From things terrestrial, let us look skyward a moment and take a lesson. To obtain clouds with the landscape when there are any, is often desirable,and yet, so eccentric are they in form and lighting that they do not alwaysoccur in harmony with the landscape in hand. A good plan is to deyote a day or more when occasion offers, to securing somenegatives of clouds for the purpose of printing them in the views by theprocess of double printing. The sky, as a rule, only requires as many seconds exposure, comparatively,as the foreground may require minutes; there is little hope, ordinarily, of is also too tame. If I had been photographing in that locality I should have chosen a? different combination. A much more poetic feeling pervades Off the North Head, Grand Menan, by T. Bricher. (Fig. 188.) It is full of lovely suggestions, and would require an elevatedstandpoint to secure its full sense in a photograph. Of course, I am only to be
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