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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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g a subject against the source of light, gives itthree characteristics that distinguish it from the ordinaryside or other lighting—first, it subordinates the detail; second,it broadens and deepens the shadows, and third, it intensifiesand rarifies the high lights. It has the general effect ofpresenting things in form, rather than in detail, and of greatlysimplifying the composition. How often one is solemnly advised to always have thesource of light to the side, or above, and occasionally thecut and dried photographer of ten or twenty years ago comesback to life with the warning that nothing is permissible buta forty-five degrees lighting, and then only a north slant skylight, and a lot more of that old photographic superstition.The day of superstition is passing, in photography as well asin other things, and to-day many of the best productions aremade by amateurs, using dwelling house windows, or eventhe open sky, for the source of light, with no regard for oldrules or formulae. 22
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THE HEADLAND. HORACE SYKES. Viewed against the light, a scene while not unnatural orfreakish often presents an unusual appearance. It is theunusual that attracts the attention and commands interest.It is the unusual flower by the roadside that causes one tostop and admire its beauty and fragrance, or the seldomheard song that causes one to listen with wonderment andthen try to discover the feathered songster. It is the unusuallighting of the commonplace scene that transforms it, as bymagic, into a thing of beauty, causing one to stop and admire,and stirring within the desire to photographically record itscharms. There is always this characteristic about a scenebathed in the last rays of a glorious sunset, or a scene thatincludes within itself the source of the light. The ocean in all its grandeur has ever increasing charms,and there is nothing more enjoyable than, camera in hand,to wander along its ever changing beaches or scale its rockycliffs, hunting for new and enchanting scenes.

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