A photographer must have as sound a knowledge of picture-making as a painter, and he must have such control over his chosen medium that he can put pe… - Arthur Hammond

Platinum is undoubtedly the process for the pictorialist, for it will reproduce gradations and halftones more delicately and with a longer range than any other similar printing process, but it demands a good negative to do it justice.

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.

There should be no very violent contrasts and no spottiness of light and shade, and, above all, the tones must be right.