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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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isher. The exception I mean is the trimmingof waste space at the prints edges. Very-little additional expense of time andthought spent with the shears greatly in-creases a photographs efficiency. Set itdown for a rule that no print is finisheduntil it is trimmed and that few picturesare so well composed on the film thatthey would not be better for some prun-ing. This is not a paradox: thatstrength, suggestive qualities, balance,and a touch of the art interest may be (708) added by making subtractions from whatmay appear a complete picture. Examples tell the story better thanany amount of description. In the pic-ture of the Road to Organ Flat, see howthe combination of storm cloud and vistaof road was made more dramatic by lop-ping off the edges of the photograph.The scene itself was rather ordinary, butthe trimming gave it a tremendous gainin interest. Look at the picture first asa whole. Then cover those waste panelsat the sides with pieces of paper and seethe gain in impressiveness.
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The Painter Collegian Arboreal Two Hudson Palisade panels IN OTHER CASES THE PANEL IS NECESSARY AS HELPING TO ACCENTUATE THE DOMINANT LINES OF THE PICTURE. IN THE INSTANCES ABOVE, FOB EXAMPLE, THE PEBPENDICULAR PREDOMINATES. HENCE THE PANEL The accompanying photographs werecut into narrow panels for the purposeof showing how far, in some instances,the trimming may be carried. The topsand bottoms, however, may be trimmedto as good advantage as the sides, andsometimes even better. The path through the pine woodsillustrates the point. Cover a little ofthe bottom with a piece of paper. Slowlymove the paper toward the top of thepicture. Somewhere between the loweredge of the print and the base of thenearest pine trees is a point where thepicture can be trimmed to best advan- tage. The way to find the location ofthat point is by experiment, keeping inmind at the time, of course, that a com-position usually is more pleasing and ef-fective if the horizon line or other sharpdivision mark doesn

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