File:The American annual of photography (1914) (14593633409).jpg

Identifier: americanannualof28newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
me. This then is for the small photographer who wants to make atrial at home work in some adjoining village which has nostudio, and who needs to know just how^ to go at it, or to speakmore modernly—go to it. One of the convenient phases of the business is that suchtrips may be made to different villages, and each trip serves asa separate experience and as a basis for improvement in meth-ods of approaching the people and of finishing the work.First, let us suppose that the photographer wishes to make aquick experimental trip to some village that is near to the hometown, going perhaps in the morning and returning in the even-ing. Such a trip is an awakener as it breaks in on the regularroutine of the studio and furnishes new experiences and opensnew points of view. But to organize such a short excursionfor the first time is puzzling and here is where I wish to help. Preparatory to such a trip I would advise that the pho-tographer secure a film camera, say a 3A, the post card size, 100
Text Appearing After Image:
Illustrating Article Some Thoughts on Home Portraiture,by F. M. Steadman. for one of the first things to do in home work is to eHminatethe plate and the plate holder. According to the arithmetic wereduce pounds to ounces by multiplying by sixteen. Anothervery practical way to do it is to use films instead of plates. Toadjust such a camera for home portraiture and any accuratework the focusing scale must be corrected and extended toshorter distances than the six feet on the focusing scale. Bustsare made at about four feet and the scale is therefore inade-quate. All that is necessary to prove the scale is to lay aground glass across the two rollers where the film passes,fasten it there by any convenient means, and covering thehead with a black cloth, as in focusing with plates, proceed totest the accuracy of each separate mark by actual trial on anobject in sunlight at the distance indicated by each marktested. And also for the closer distances up to the full exten-sion of the bellows.

Note About Images