Where light falls on an object and is reflected back to the… - Arthur Hammond

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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.

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 di… - Arthur Hammond

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