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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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no effort made to con-trol the light—just using the light as I received it withoutmodification. If I should submit prints to illustrate this articlethat were made from carefully studied negatives where thelight had been controlled with the curtains, and further ac-centuated with the use of head and side screens, the illustra-tions would be of little or no value. What the photographerwho is contemplating a new light desires to know is—whatwill your light do, not what can you do with your light. Whena light performs well wide open it certainly will performbetter in the hands of an intelligent photographer who thor-oughly understands light and shade and its proper distributionon the face or figure, which is accomplished by means of theintelligent manipulation of shades and screens. If you are installing a new light or contemplating the in-stalling of one, by all means make a thorough investigation ofthe single slant, and if you are convinced, believe me, youwill never regret it. 272
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Figure 3- Illustrating article The Single Slant Light. by George D. Jops 273 Hmniran 9minal IFormulare In the following section we have gathered together a typical col-lection of Formulae and Tables, which will assist the photographerin his every-day work. It will be noticed that makers formulae areomitted. These can best be obtained by direct application to themakers. The appended formulae are selected from the workingmethods of practical photographers.—Editor. TRAY DEVELOPERS FOR PLATES AND PAPERS Amidol. (W. M. Keck).—Amidol, 20 grains; sodium bisulphite(dry), 40 grains; sodium sulphite (dry), 60 grains; potassium bromide(powdered), i to 3 grains; water, 4 ounces. For all kinds of de-veloping paper. Expose so that the development will be complete intwenty to thirty seconds. The tone is a blue black. Amidol Universal Developer. (W. A. Alcock).—Water, 20 ounces;sulphite of soda (dry), % ounce; Amidol, 50 grains; potassium bromide,10 grains; citric acid, 20 to 40 grains. Splendi

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