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

Plates and films possess great latitude, it is true, but too short an exposure always has a tendency to cause a loss of atmosphere.

It must be understood that in picture-making the methods used by one photographer may be entirely unsuited to another. This must be so, or there would be little or no individuality in pictures by different artists.

There is a tendency among "advanced" pictorialists to neglect the choice of an interesting subject and to trust to an effective pattern to make their pictures interesting. Such pictures are often interesting, but they are interesting more as studies in artistic technique than as pictures.