Above all, watch for or create, interesting LIGHTING conditions. Think how a subject would look printed dark on contrasty paper with heavy 'Burning in ' as well as restricting tonal values by Posterisation or Lith Film treatment.ĥ. Create 'Mood' in the darkroom by printing and processing techniques. Use filters to alter tonal values in monochrome and to put colour in where colour is lacking. Use lenses intelligently, create Pattern Effects with the 'stacking effect' of telephotos for example.ģ. Use restricted depth of field so that not everything is in focus.Ģ. Other methods used to produce a 'Pictorial' result are:ġ. The word 'Pictorial' is used in photography to define the style of image produced where there is evidence of Artistic Interpretation of the subject matter by the photographer. If there was a dearth of Nuns or Priests, a Black Cat would do, provided it had its tail up with the tip slightly curled. I discovered that if you went to Spain and took a picture of a sunlit sidestreet, half in shadow,waited until a Nun or Priest appeared one third of the way in and you printed the neg on Kodak Ivory Fine Lustre Bromeskso paper, you had a WINNER !! It needed the influence of 'Ricardo' in the Amateur Photographer Magazine ( price 1 shilling) to show me there was an artistic side to this photography lark- he used to draw lines on readers' photos, following the lines of Composition and was always wanting a mountain moved a hundred yards to the right ! My eyes were opened to 'Pictorial Photography' when I joined the South Essex Camera Club. When I first started Photography in 1951 I though there was just 'photography' - I did not see past taking family occasions with everyone standing in the back garden, mainly because the family Kodak Autographic was brought out only about twice a year for 'Big Occasions'. When I joined my first 'Adult' Camera Club ( After the School one ) in 1952 I discovered that 'Club Photography' was all about 'Pictorial' Photography - if you put in a photo of Football action for example, that was NOT 'Pictorial' but if you made a shot of people in action and blurred their legs and background by 'panning' with a slow shutter speed then THAT was 'Pictorial' - also, a picture of the Lloyd's Building in London if taken for an Architecture Journal would show all the pipework without heavy shadows and the verticals shoud be vertical - a 'Pictorial 'approach could be to take shots in brilliant sunshine, just concentratiing on the shine on the pipes, under=exposing to make the shadows go really black and tilting the camera up to give 'converging verticals'.
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