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Title: Practical photography : being the science and art of photography, developed for amateurs and beginners
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Wheeler, Owen, 1859-1932
Subjects: Photography
Publisher: London : "The Bazaar" Office
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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the cap can be at once put on the lens and removed tocomplete the exposure when the squall is over. Never work, if you can by any means help it, with the sun in your face.Either at your side or at your back is its most manageable position. If,however, facing the sun is unavoidable, a cap or hat should be held so asto screen it from flashing directly into the lens. With this I shall conclude my hints to those of my readers to whomlandscape photography is either a present or a future study. In develop- GO PRACTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY. ment and succeeding operations there is nothing which calls for specialremark. With good formulas and plenty of practice failure in these isalmost impossible. But in the artistic treatment of a picture this is notthe case. No amount of formulas will make a man an artist, but thesimple explanation of the simplest of art rules will go far to give him aslight glimmering of artistic truth, and when this has once dawned uponhim the daybreak is not so very far behind.
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CHAPTER XI.Papeii-Pmnting, Washing, Toning, &c. The present chapter is based upon an important assumption. Hithertomy instructions have tended, I trust, consistently to the realisation ofone fixed object, the production, namely, of satisfactory negatives.From the hypothesis that these instructions have been accurately andsuccessfully carried out, the rationale of the process I am about todescribe will be deduced. I have said elsewhere that from a negative bya process of sun-printing upon prepared paper, copies of a given subjectcan be indefinitely multiplied. I will now proceed to justify this remarkby giving in detail an account of the various operations which, combinedwith the possession of a decent negative or negatives, will procure theabove-mentioned results. The subject will require but little scientific preface. The discussion oftwo points only will be sufficient to give the learner a grasp of theprinciples on which the theory and practice of paper-printing arefounded. Thes

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