The American annual of photography (1911) (14803288903)

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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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. Avoid birds-eye views, and confine yourself to simplesubjects such as one or two birch trees, a rail or stone fence,an old farm house, and other simple subjects to be found inevery locality. Have one object in the picture predominate.This can be done by having that object in focus, and the otherplanes in the picture softened, so that the last planes in the picture have no detail, but when the eye finally rests upon themthey are so soft and restful that the person looking at it wishesthat there were more to the picture. It leaves a pleasant rec-ollection that is not soon forgotten. Composition, lighting,planes, etc., are very hard subjects to explain in the limitedspace which this Annual permits, but excellent little pamph-lets or books treating on the same can be obtained at nearly alldealers in photo supplies. In conclusion, I might add that I have shouldered my cam-era and walked from early morning until evening, and havereturned home without ever making an exposure. This is a 224
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IN WINTERS GRASP. H. OLIVER BODINE. very hard thing to do, for those who have been in the habit ofloading up for twelve or fifteen exposures, and taking themsimply because they did not want to return without exposingtheir plates or films. To overcome this it is necessary that thepictorial worker be able to cull the good from the bad, or inother words, see those bits of nature which go to make a pic-ture, so to speak, or one which tells a story. If they wouldconfine themselves to taking pictures of this kind, they willfind at the end of the season that, instead of having severalhundred negatives, and as many prints, which are of no espe-cial merit or interest, they will have a dozen or so negativesfrom which they can make prints that will be a source ofpleasure to them and some of which will, no doubt, find theirway into the Salon or other exhibits, and be the means of giv-ing great pleasure not only to themselves, but to a great ma-jority of those who see them displayed on the wall, t