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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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of the most beautiful river scenes are where thestream flows mid wooded banks. To catch the movementof the water a very short exposure is essential. The result isthat the woodland portion of the composition is much under-exposed, and, if development is forced to get detail in thiselement, a negative that produces a soot and whitewashprint is the result. The liquidity of the water is lost. Somesemblance of the scene may be secured, but pictorially it is anabsolute failure. What, then, am I to do? asks the interested party. This—Dont be too ambitious. Cut down the view. Con-centrate on a relatively small spot, and make the most of it. In Foam-Flecked (Figure i) it was possible by ascend-ing the bank of the river to secure a wide expanse, but it wasthought that by concentrating attention on a small spot at thebrink of the stream that a possible picture might be secured.A little further westward was a weir over which the waterrushed majestically. Here it was more placid, though the 100
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FOAM FLECKED. Figure i. Illustrating article River Scenery—Capturing Running Water/ by William Findlay. lOI froth caused by the waters rapid journey was not entirelydissipated. Particular attention was paid to the beautifulcurve along the bank, while the other accessories—the boatand the overhanging tree—were also considered. The firstattempt was unsatisfactory. In fact before a picture to pleasewas secured several six-mile runs on the cycle had to be made,and quite a number of plates exposed. But from each attempta lesson was learned. It was found that a time exposure in adull light gave a satisfactory rendering of the trees, but thesuggestion of running water was lost. A bright light at noonwas also unsatisfactory, but an attempt made five hours laterwith a slanting light (the sun was low in the heavens) withan exposure of i/5oth of a second with the lens at F/8, gavethe result here depicted. The water in the middle distance may not convey strikinglyto the mind the idea of mov

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