Handbook of the practice and art of photography (1875)
Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm, 1834-1898, Molling, Edward F · Philadelphia, Benerman & Wilson · leaf 335
329 ON LIGHT AND ILLUMINATION. lines are more horizontal. From such a standpoint the lower objects appear in a bird's-eye perspective; persons and trees become foreshort- ened and appear small and compressed ; it does not create a natural Fig. 120. 1 impression to see the ground ascend over objects… … Such a high standpoint in taking a street view is only to be recom- mended when it offers other great advantages. Here is still another point. In a perspective view, the lines of the
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