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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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thought of,any more than extreme distances are; but this does not applyto phenomena or accidental effects of sky, because they alwaysattract particularly. As the sky is a natural background for the landscape, itshould, of course, be regarded as such, and while its impor-tance and influence upon the landscape should not be forgot-ten, it must be treated as a background and kept in propersubordination. The use of a background is to relieve, or em-phasize, the principal attraction, and this is accomplished byopposing the direction of the cloud forms to the lines of theview. This balancing Is further accomplished by the opposi-tion of light and shadow, the result being a feeling of breadth.When the sky is the chief object of Interest—as in a sunset, ora coming storm—the landscape must then assume secondplace, and be In turn subdued to that of the sky. It matterslittle whether the sky Is taken upon the same plate with thelandscape, or subsequently printed In, providing the eflfect 194
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A HOME STUDY. E. G. DUNNING. r does not violate the truth of Nature. This question has beenargued to a great length in our magazines, both pro and con,but it is of no importance to the pictorial photographer. Thecamerist who is seeking to express artistic feeling, uses thecamera solely as a means to an end, and that end is a picture.Clouds and skies, trees and figures may be printed in, or other-wise obtained, and there can be no question that sucn a pro-cedure is good, always providing that it is the best for pictorialeffect. It need not be necessarily true, but, and here is thegist of the whole matter—it must LOOK TRUE. The cameraand other manipulations of photography are the tools of ourcraft—like the brushes and pigments of the painter—and theworker has every right to use his tools in his own way and tohis own advantage. As the sky plays so important a part in portraying our im-pressions of Nature, it is indeed surprising how many ama-teurs still tolerate the white paper sky

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