The American annual of photography . nd they at once sayWhat a good picture that would make! It does not followthat it would, unless it fulfilled the requisite conditions for agood picture; pictorial suitability is quite independent of thesentiments of the scene, and of the feelings invoked althoughit is quite possible that picturesqueness may exist together withthe sentiment. A picture should agree with the rules of compositionalthough as photographers we do not compose it in the sensein which a painter does. The study of composition enables usto see what is picturesque and avoid taking what
The American annual of photography . nd they at once sayWhat a good picture that would make! It does not followthat it would, unless it fulfilled the requisite conditions for agood picture; pictorial suitability is quite independent of thesentiments of the scene, and of the feelings invoked althoughit is quite possible that picturesqueness may exist together withthe sentiment. A picture should agree with the rules of compositionalthough as photographers we do not compose it in the sensein which a painter does. The study of composition enables usto see what is picturesque and avoid taking what is not; andhaving chosen our subject it will help us to select our stand-point, and effect of light and shade, will tell us- whether theintroduction of figures will improve or mar the picture. There seems to be some inherent connection between old ageand picturequeness. The finger of time tones down what isglaring, gives variety to surfaces, rounds off the sharp corners,and generally makes things look picturesque and more in har- 48. OLD BRIDGE—LUCERNE. J. E. ADNAMS. 4P mony with Nature. A new brick wall, for instance, wiihevery brick truly laid and every joint a perfect straight line,may be a thing of beauty and pride to the builder, but to theartist it is ugly and staring, and only when time and weatherhave knocked it about and stained its surface with lichen,clothed it with ivy or planted wild flowers in its crannies, doesit become picturesque. Many of our disappointments in the search for the pictur-esque arise from the fact that beautiful things in Nature donot always make beautiful pictures, however we may treatthem. We are apt not to realize, for one thing, how much isowing to the charm of color, and when our picture is translatedinto monochrome we find the beauty gone. For another thing,we view a scene with two eyes and get a stereoscopic effect,each different plane of the picture standing out boldly in a wayit would not do if we used only one eye. The camera havingon
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