The American annual of photography (1918) (14594727868)

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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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usual plate or film. Take your tripod also under yourarm, and again wend your way to the old tree. You should bythis time feel acquainted—do you? Set up your camera, andmake at least four—time exposures—of say one twenty-fifthsecond with F/16 stop, from as many different viewpoints.Go entirely around your subject. Go home:— Retire to yourdark-room and proceed to develop your plates or film. Useyour regular developer formula, but add an equal volume ofwater, and one or two drops of a ten per cent solution ofbromide to each ounce. Be careful not to get your negativestoo dense. You know you have often made snow scenes in summertime, by under-exposure and too vigorous development. Nowreverse the method, and give plenty of exposure, and followwith weak, well restrained development. Strive to show everydetail in the darkest shadows of the old tree trunk, and at thesame time every little inequality in the snow background.Have very Httle absolutely pure white paper in your print; 250
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s 251 and also about the same amount of deepest dark in the densestshadows. It requires time and patience, but one is well paidfor his trouble. For it is certain that for beauty, delicacyof color, fine tracery, texture, and true tone values, a SnowScene can not be excelled.