I do want to make it clear that the success of the picture … - Arthur Hammond

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I do want to make it clear that the success of the picture does not depend entirely upon the beauty of the subject, but mainly upon the manner in which the picture-maker uses his pictorial material.

Arthur Hammond

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Arthur Hammond (1880 - 1962) was a pictorialist photographer, who has written books like Pictorial Composition in Photography.

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Where light falls on an object and is reflected back to the eye, we see a highlight; where it strikes at an angle and is reflected back other than directly to the eye we see halftones; where no direct light falls on the object we have shadows: and these highlights, halftones and shadows are modified by light reflected into them by other objects and by other parts of the same object.

There is as much difference in the meaning of the words tone and tones as there is in the words nerve and nerves.

Too many lines and too many objects of equal importance in a picture will cause confusion, discomfort and eye-strain.

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