Pictorial effect in photography : being hints on composition and chiaroscuro for photographers, to which is added a chapter on combination printing (1869)
Robinson, H. P. (Henry Peach), 1830-1901 · London : Piper & Carter · leaf 108
98 the picture and the feet the bottom, so that, when they were inserted in an album, some part must be covered, perhaps a foot cut off, or perhaps half the head. This is done, I suppose, under a mistaken notion on the … Fig. 3. Fig. 4. part of the photographer, that he is giving enough for the money, a principle to which I have no objection, but let the " enough " be in quality rather than in quantity. A carte-de-visite displaying proportion, taste, and a right feeling for art, is of much more value than a…
Composition (Photography)
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