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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (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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give us a sign of an image,but if we take it further from the light so that it will requireconsiderable more time to print, we will have a much betterimage, and of fairly good color, but it will not show the de-tails as we wish; consequently we will have to sacrifice colorin order to get the details. It will be found that if we use agood contrast paper of high grade, using barely enough bro-mide to make the whites clear with a good negative, then re-duce the developer with water—not too much—and make theexposure to a slow light, we will have a print of a gray color,but will be clear and clean and give a print, not a smudge. Should this not suit, make a series of experiments; take thestandard formula and for experiment sake try adding a triflemore metol or hydroquinone, and if that does not do, tryeither a little more or less of carbonate or sulphite, but onlyone at a time, and each time starting with the makers formula,and always remembering to be as stingy of bromide as pos- 238
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A SUNLIT GIRL. CARLE SEMON. sible. In short, get back to the track by using the makersformula, having the room just comfortable or about 75 de-grees, using barely enough bromide to make the whites clear,and water according to the paper, that is, more for soft orspecial paper and less for the regular or contrast grades.Start all experiments from the makers formula, trying onechange at a time, making two or more changes only as alast resort. You will find that if you are careful to have the conditionsas suggested, and expose just long enough so that with con-trast paper it will come to a point in developing where it seemsto lag or stop, in 30 to 40 seconds, and with special or softpapers in from 50 to 60 seconds, exposing negatives that areflat (either thin or dense) to a slow light, and those that arecontrasty (either thin or dense) to a strong light, you willfind you have the best prints that the negative is capable ofgiving. Do not try to make a picture with bromide. It isonly suitab

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