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Title: Complete self-instructing library of practical photography
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Schriever, J. B. (James Boniface), b. 1868, ed American School of Art and Photography (Scranton, Pa.)
Subjects: Photography
Publisher: Scranton, Pa., American School of Art and Photography
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ere. Inphotography we are reproducing round subjects, as well asobjects situated at varying distances from the camera, andplacing them on a flat surface. In order to hold true toNature in our reproduction it is necessary to secure as muchroundness or relief, or, properly speaking, atmospherein the picture as possible. (See Study No. 9, Bridge, byJ. H. Field. Page 91.) 244. You must first have a perfect understanding ofthe balance of a picture before you will be able to proceedfurther, and if, by this time, you are not thoroughly familiarwith the principles of the steelyard, go back and read again,very carefully. Paragraphs 218 to 225. 245. Horizon Line.—In summing iip ivhat zve have nowcovered, regarding balance and composition, four important prin-ciples present themselves. The first one deals with the rela-tive amount of sky and landscape to be included in the fieldof view. Therefore, the FIRST rule is: Never allozv thehorizon to bisect the picture. If the horizon cuts the picture
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THE k:PUBLIC Landscape and General View Photography. 125 into two halves the eye at once resents the error of assigningequal areas to those two primary factors. 246. SECOND: The higJicst point in the landscape shouldnever coincide tvith the center of the pictures ividth, but shouldfall either to one side or the other. 247. THIRD: Such subject or subjects as zve may wish toinclude in the foreground, whether they be figures or inanimateobjects, must neither occupy the center, nor approach too closely toeither side, nor to the lower limit of the picture. 248. FOURTH: Should the object or objects be of con-spicuous si.:e, they should find a background in the more distantlandscape masses, rather than in the sky. 249. In order that we may impress upon and give youa clearer idea of these rules, let us take as an example acountry road, with a farmers wagon and team. Should weplace the camera in the center of the road the wagon wouldbe brought into the forbidden central position, while theroad

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