p.59
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...even if our range of tones is shorter and we have to compress the tones into a shorter scale, we can preserve truth of value only by keeping the tones in about the same relative proportions. We should make our lightest tone light and our darkest tone dark, and then get in as many tones as we can in between.
— Arthur Hammond
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Source: Wikiquote: "Arthur Hammond" (Quotes, Pictorial Composition in Photography (1920), Chapter II)
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About Arthur Hammond
Arthur Hammond (1880 - 1962) was a pictorialist photographer, who has written books like Pictorial Composition in Photography.
About Arthur Hammond
Arthur Hammond (1880 - 1962) was a pictorialist photographer, who has written books like Pictorial Composition in Photography.
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