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branches of the trees would take the direction named. If in the first 

 position you have chosen to set up your camera you find the lines of the 

 foreground rising perpendicularly from the base line, reject it at once, and 

 move to a spot where they shall incline either to the right or left. The 

 lines, then taking a slanting direction, will lead the eye into the picture 



Fig. 3. 



in a far more agreeable and satisfactory manner than if they had followed 

 the vertical tendency which obtained in the first situation. 



Points. 



Observe where the most prominent feature of your landscape comes, 

 whether too much in the centre of your picture or too near its limits. 

 It is generally considered bad taste to have any object coming exactly in 

 the centre of a composition so that it shall be equidistant from the 

 outside lines of the picture, and this should be borne in mind when 

 focussing the landscape, but I shall have something more to say in 

 reference to this later on. Note whether you have one point immediately 

 over another, and, if so, make some little alterations in your position to 

 remedy this defect. Do not have two or more parts of your picture of 

 nearly equal size, neither let the undulations of, say, " a moorland with 



