Musical Accompaniment: Where do I go from you? by Kay Armen and Anton Karas from The Third Man.
I love Clarence White’s photography. He liked to make photographs in the morning and it gives them an ethereal feel. When things shift and change quickly, I love to look at photographs like these.
This is The Orchard, from 1905.
Amon Carter Museum
You can see past posts about Clarence White’s photography here.
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White’s techniques are a puzzle to this prior photographer. Photo crispness was possible in the 1900s, as evidenced by various photos credited to White. White tended to favor subtle clarity in many of his photos.
An image can be distorted (made fuzzy) through the size of the aperture opening; the lens focal point; the use of a filter, etc. Weather conditions may also affect the photo’s crispness. Most amateurs think that a cloudy day is bad for taking a photo. Quite the opposite. A cloudy day evenly disburses the sun’s light, eliminating all shadows, glare, etc.
White may have used all the options since I read he was the first to open a school to teach photography. It is amazing that he is self-taught, though he was friends with other expert photographers of the time and likely learned a great deal through osmosis.
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