Arthur Hammond Quotes

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Too many lines and too many objects of equal importance in a picture will cause confusion, discomfort and eye-strain.

Arthur Hammond
The emotions suggested by facts, not the facts themselves, are what concern the picture maker. This is where he is differentiated from those who seek to make only records and who are concerned only with facts.

Arthur Hammond
The areas of tones are called masses and, whatever the subject of picture may be, its success as a picture depends very largely on the effectiveness of the spacing and massing.

Arthur Hammond
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.

Arthur Hammond
I would recommend the photographer to regard the focusing-screen of his camera as a space to be divided into a pleasing pattern, rather than as a glass on which a reduced facsimile of a scene or view or a miniature likeness of a person can be seen.

Arthur Hammond
One of the most important qualities a picture can possess is simplicity. This is true not only of photographic pictures but also of drawings, paintings or etchings. By being simple a picture gains enormously in strength and effectiveness; it wears well; one can live with it and enjoy it without getting tired of it.

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

Arthur Hammond
A. J. Anderson says: "Expose for the tones that are most desired."

Arthur Hammond
There is as much difference in the meaning of the words tone and tones as there is in the words nerve and nerves.

Arthur Hammond