With most of us, even without special training, there is a certain instinctive sense of proportion, and thus we recognize the relative distance of ob… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

Justification must be sought in the fact that "no very great incongruity is observable."

We are then brought to consider Platinotype, which, on the whole, may be regarded as the most suitable for general pictorial work. Its power of rendering relative tones and atmosphere is perhaps unequalled, whilst, although every one who has used it has sometimes wished that the undeveloped image were more visible, yet the pale, ghost-like print made by the light is very much better than nothing at all, and, indeed, may often be quite sufficient to guide us in our endeavours to control the action of light in a manner to be shortly described.

...to be able to say of a representation that it is "exactly like Nature " is by no means equivalent to saying that it is a fine picture.