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...shading is of great importance, and good shadows can best be secured when the sun is low, and when one side of all objects is more strongly lighted than the other.

— Arthur Hammond Pictorial Composition in Photography (1920)

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A view or a landscape will impress different people in different ways, just as a human individual will.

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The treatment of the subject is considered to be more important than the subject itself.

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