PICTURE MAKING WITH THE AID OF THE CAMERA. 



K. ROW A. 

 Photos by Joseph T. Keiley. 



Doubtless the majority of the readers of 

 Recreation are already aware that a photo- 

 graph is not necessarily a picture, in the 

 artistic conception of that word. A picture, 

 roughly speaking, is a flat, or surface, repre- 

 sentation of some scene, object or person so 

 rendered as to concentrate the interest in 

 a harmonious manner on the subject de- 

 picted, to the elimination of all unnecessary 



SIOUX CHIEF. 



detail and the subordination of all accessory 

 objects to the main theme treated. Just as 

 all the details of a good story must lead up 

 to its point, or climax, so must all the de- 

 tails of a picture subordinate themselves to 

 and support the subject treated. For ex- 

 ample, it would not be pictorially consistent 

 in presenting the picture of a dead grizzly 

 to set up a small cat rifle against a neigh- 

 boring tree, as if it had been the weapon 

 used in killing the bear. Everything else 

 might be well presented, yet, to anyone fa- 

 miliar with hunting, the picture, instead of 

 being a subject for serious consideration to 



A CAVALIER. 



BACCHANTE, 



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