So photography, having a place among artistic processes, has its own distinguishing quality which cannot be duplicated by any other medium. - Arthur Hammond

For outdoor work, landscape and marine pictures, a long-focus lens is usually more satisfactory, because with it we can more easily isolate and emphasize the principal object of interest, and make it large enough without having to get too close.

This is composition; knowing what to select, how to arrange, what to emphasize or eliminate and how to do it...

Photography, properly controlled, can render tones better than any other medium of artistic expression, and personal control of exposure and development will be all that is necessary to get good tones and truthful gradations, for the camera, properly guided and then left to do its own job in its own way, will take care of the tones of a picture very well.