Pictorial effect in photography
A photography manual by H. P. Robinson, published in New York by Scovill & Adams in 1892, teaching amateur and professional photographers about composition and pictorial effect. The four engravings are simple landscape studies showing how tonal masses, diagonal lines and a single bright highlight organise a scene. A designer could take from them the use of a dark foreground mass set against a pale sky or water, with a diagonal edge leading the eye across the frame.
