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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (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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as Old English Red which gives excellentresults when red chalk tones are desired, and I have seennothing in gum work which has given a better red chalk im-pression. Fearing that this article may exceed an available length Iwant to impress upon the would-be gum workers the possi-bilities of very artistic results from working with a veryfreshly coated paper. I mean by this a paper which has beencoated within two or three hours of the time of printing.This is especially true if you wish to develop automatically,but it should be remembered that the exposure will have to beperhaps a half longer with fresh paper than it would be withpaper that had been coated for twelve hours before printing.The particular advantage of this freshly coated paper is atendency to what I shall call the drift of the photographicimage, resulting in a slightly blurred outline, and thereby de-priving the print of the hardness often found in photography.Perhaps you may say that you do not desire blurred outlines 202
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GRASSHOPPER WARBLER FEEDING YOUNG. WILLIAM FARREN. even in a slight degree, that you wish your results to bedefinite statements of realism, and if this is the case, all thatis necessary is to have your paper very thoroughly dried, yournegatives harsh and crisp, and your results will be as severeas an avenging angel, but not half as attractive. Many secure the blurred outline by repeated printings, andthis no doubt has its advantage, otherwise so many wouldnot practice it; but if the same result can be obtained withone printing, and a quality with some slight resemblance to awash drawing be obtained, the question may be asked, isnot the easiest way the best? 203 If any wish to know my opinion as to the best negatives forgum printing I will say that it has been my experience thatnegatives which have been fully exposed, and fully developedwith a developer containing less than a normal quantity ofthe reducing agent, seem to be best adapted to gum printing.I have never been an advocate for

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