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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (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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ied moods, with prints containing a range of gra-dation in monotone, and containing only the vital elements nec-essary for the complete and satisfying whole. For example,if the effectiveness of an early morning scene depends almostentirely upon the atmospheric affect and the suppression ofinsistent detail, the aim should be a rendition of these qualities,subordinating or excluding any distracting elements. Or,again, if an evening effect is the impression intended, thequietude is best suggested by those elements that suggesttranquillity. I have seen prints which a single tree with harmoniousforeground and sky gave the desired impression, leaving nosuggestion that the simplicity was too severe. A striking ex-ample of this can be seen in Wind-swept, by Ernest Claypole,reproduced in the Annual for 1910, page 255. There is a prevailing idea among a great many amateursthat their own particular locality is devoid of the pictorial,and that the worker who wins honors is favored with a more 296
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GRETCHEN. L. F. Brehmer. picturesque location. This is erroneous. Except in some fewinstances, we all have a small bit of woods, or meadow, orcreek nearby and we can find material a-plenty if we but seek.Success will not crown our efforts if we casually traverse theterritory without thought or attempt to separate the pictorialfrom the commonplace. If one endeavors to make every effort suggest some phaseof nature, even should the results not be entirely successful,the satisfaction of having a fixed purpose more than com-pensates one for the time and labor involved, and the interestin photography increases instead of diminishing, as is oftenthe case with those amateurs who never accomplish any last-ing results, solely on account of their inability to understandand appreciate the beautiful and picturesque in nature. Note the subtle changes light and shade play in any se-lected landscape, and study nature under various moods, foronly by so doing can we learn the fundamental principles oft

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