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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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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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this class of work. What I consider my very best sun picture,Sun and Sea (Figure i), was taken on a cheap single coatedplate. I cannot say that I have found double-coated or othernon-halation plates to be of any great advantage. It required a long time for me to learn that the ray filteris of little value. I am quite sure that it actually spoiled someof my exposures that would otherwise have been successful. It is the subject matter itself, the condition or quahty of thelight, the condition of the atmosphere and sky that are thecontrolling factors. I have learned that the lens and platecannot, as a practical thing, record successfully extremes oflight which are greater than the eye can comfortably discern.In other words, if the sun is partly obscured by smoke, haze,fog, clouds, or the cleep color of sunset so one can look atit with the unaided eye without discomfort the platecan record it without becoming mussed up with hala-tion and lens reflections. Success depends therefore not 112
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to •4.4 U) stin c^ E- < w CO Q< CO ii3 so much on the equipment or methods as on close observationof the subject, and making the exposure at the critical moment. The matter of exposure should also be mentioned. Thenatural thing to do is underexpose. Because of the apparentintensity of the light one will naturally shorten the time. Itmust be remembered that the lens sees only the shadow sideof what is before it, and that a fairly full exposure is neces-sary. My most successful exposures have been from a twenty-fifth to a hundredth part of a second at an average stop ofF 6/8. I use only tank development for both plates and films, andbelieve it to be one of the essentials in this fascinating work.My prints and enlargements are made in the usual manner.For the sake of brevity I have not attempted to tell all Iknow about this interesting subject. The fact is I learn some-thing new almost every time I attempt it, I have given a fewbrief hints which I hope will encourage and help oth

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