Pictorial effect in photography : being hints on composition and chiaroscuro for photographers, to which is added a chapter on combination printing (1869)
Robinson, H. P. (Henry Peach), 1830-1901 · London : Piper & Carter · leaf 107
\)1 As a general rule, if the head be not equidistant from the sides of the picture, there should be more space allowed before the face than behind, as in fig. 1. The awkward effect of the reverse of this will be seen in fig. 2. … Fig. 1. Fig. 2. A disregard of this rule has spoilt the effect of many otherwise good pictures. In some photographs we see the figure walking almost out of the picture, for the sake of showing the last coils of the long caudal appendages with which ladies sweep the dust, thus sacrificing the head…
Composition (Photography)
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