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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (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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meras user than upon the instrumentitself. Excepting that orthochromatic plates and films give abetter rendition of the flesh tones, there is no further consid-eration to note with regard to equipment. Either tank or timeand temperature development are best for juvenile pictures asthey are best for any other. One of the chief requisites for the making of the best pic-tures of children is plenty of exposure. Not only should timeor a slow snap be employed whenever possible, but as large astop as is available under the conditions should also be used.The large stop affords facility also for sufficient diffusion inthe finished picture. Too much definition does not help chil-drens pictures. The figure of the child is so small that care must be takenordinarily, by limiting the extent of the background and sur-roundings, to prevent its being lost in a multiplicity of otherdetail. Yet sufficient space should intervene between it andthe margins to indicate its tininess. From the height of a 266
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THE FOREST IN THE POOL. WM. LUDLUM, JR. 267 mans eyes the expression of a childs face will be found to bequite different from that obtained from its same level. Thetilt of the head, the angle of the eyes, and the contour of thebaby face are all changed as the camera is lifted above thelittle head. Experience will show the differences, but theymust be kept constantly in mind. As a general rule, thephotographer should have his own eyes always on a level withthe camera to make sure that the expression of the face iswhat is desired and that no distortion is apparent. The problems of child photography are cut squarely in twoby the division into indoor and outdoor picture making. Be-cause the former is far more difficult, it may be well to con-sider its phases first. If there is one golden rule of indoor child photography, onenecessity without which such portraits never will be good andwith which their chief difficulty is removed, it is that the keyof the whole picture must be high and ligh

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