The painter has a great advantage over the photographer in that he is contracting a picture from scratch and can build up and alter at will, but the photographer has to make a picture from it. What he sees on the screen will not necessarily look the same when reduced to monochrome .which is another reason for applying broad principles of construction as the basis of the picture, watch the next painter you see and you will observe that he sketches in charcoal the main lines of the composition before applying any color at all.
“Drifting In The Moonlight” by Francis Wu has a striking impact because it is unusual and original. Mr. Wu’s picture shows a very nice pattern and the moonlight quality is quite powerfully conveyed except perhaps to s photographic viewer who will probably realize that it is far from a “straight” photograph. Nerveless. It is very pleasing picture, which will bear looking at more than once, and which demonstrates that the photographic processes not quite so inflexible as it sometimes claimed and can be used to convey a strong impression of mood.
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| Drifting By The Moonlight By Francis Wu |
So, while an appreciation of good composition should eventually come naturally and spontaneously, in the early stages a study o the accepted principles must be a great help, aided always by inspection of actual examples in the art gallery.
Amateur Photogspher was founded in 1884 in London.
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