_See __The Bugle Call_
I believe that the data of camera, plate, lens, exposure, paper, etc.,
have no essential value as aids in pictorial photography.
That pictures are made with the camera by feeling alone. The selection of
the subject, the lighting, the composition, the exposure and development,
and the after-treatment and selection of the printing medium, are all a
matter of feeling.
That the rules of technique once learned are all practically violated in
the making of the plate and in the production of a print, according as the
artist feels his subject and as he wishes to reproduce that feeling.
In that way only can the individuality be attained which is the keynote of
picture-making.