The selection of subject in pictorial photography (1901)
Tindall, W. Edwin, 1863- · London : Iliffe & Sons · leaf 113
69 SINGLE FIGURES AND OBJECTS. ' … Fig. 8. and were quite near enough for any figures to be placed in a picture of this description. It is not desirable to have the sky or landscape with much white in it when it is intended to be the background of figures ; a light background helps to destroy roundness, and gives the figure a…
Photography, Artistic
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