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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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dimensions, and the diameter of a lead pencil will cover the highest and loftiest of them all, there is apt to come over one a feeling of littleness not realized before. Perhaps this is why so many people purchase a photographic outfit and fail to follow up its use. For what amateur has not passed through this experience? And how few really advanced amateurs—those who make pictures—ever essay a subject of this nature in maturer years. They have been through the fire. They know the cameras limitations. To the newly wedded camerad, therefore, I would say:Do not attempt to see how much of Gods green earth you can get on one four by five plate. It is better to go to the other extreme and strive to see how little can be made to cover the plate, decoratively. In other words, strive to tell your story with as few words as possible. Study the small things. Study the units which make up all compositions.Try to make compositions of a single unit that shall be pleas-ing to the eye and tell a story. 170
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A WINDING BROOK. J. WILL PALMER. In the instance above cited the would-be artist was filled with the grandeur of the mountains. But the camera made the mountain range a very small fraction of the plate area. Simply a line across the center. The upper half being a pure ungraded mass, which in the resultant print appears as so much white paper. The lower half probably a jumble of materials mixed together in such a manner as to make a single dark mass of no particular interest. At the same time, in that immediate foreground—probably within a stone's throw of where we were standing, possibly the tripod need not be moved from its position—there is among that heterogeneous mass a unit that is capable of forming the key-note for a whole dozen compositions, which can be made to cover the picture space in such a manner as to satisfy the most exacting. Therefore I say, Study the units, their lines, their masses.See that single clump of mullein stalks, the broad acres beyond, even the mountain range, but s

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