Accessory Apparatus
Accessory Apparatus. That The Advice Given In The Previous Chapters Has Been Acted Upon, And That Camera, Lens, And Tripod Stand Have Been Selected, We May Now Turn Our Attention To The Various Minor Appar4us Which It Will Be Necessary To Purchase Before We Shall Be Ready For Work. A ...
Bromide Printing
Bromide Printing. Printing Is A Process Which Specially Commends Itself To The Requirements Of The Amateur, For The Reason That Better Results From Injudiciously Exposed Negatives Are Obtainable From It Than From Any Other. The Finest Results Are, Of Course, As With Other Processes, Only Obtainable From The Most Suitable ...
Copying
Copying. The Many Applications To Which Photography May Be Put, Perhaps There Is Not One More Useful Than Copying. 8o Far As The Mere Reproduction Of Detail Goes, Photography Excels In Accuracy The Work Of The Most Skilful Draughts Man. For Copying Old And Valuable Engravings, Woodcuts, And Line Drawings, ...
Enlarging By Daylight
Enlarging By Daylight. Amateur Who Contents Himself With Working A Small Sized Plate Will Probably Be Anxious To Learn How To Make Enlargements From His Small Negatives, And As The Process Is One Which Presents Little Difficulty, I Propose To Devote A Chapter To Its Consideration. Enlargements May Be Effected ...
Etc The Preparation Of
The Preparation Of Solutions, Etc. Made All Our Purchases, And Provided Ourselves With Proper Dark-room Accommodation, Or Its Substitute, We Have Still To Preparo The Necessary Solutions For The Various Operations Of Developing, Fixing, Etc., Through Which The Plate Has To Pass, Before We Shall Be Really Ready For Work. ...
Failures Defects
Defects, Failures, And Their Remedies. The Beginner Has Carefully Perused The Foregoing Chapters Upon Development, And Followed Out The Instructions Therein, He Will, In All Probability, Not Be Long In Coming To The Conclusion That The Apparently Simple Operation Of Taking A Negative Is Not Quite Plain Sailing. His Path ...
Flash Light Photography
Flash-light Photography. Powdered Magnesium, Or Magnesium Dust, Be Forcibly Blown Through A Flame A Rapid Combustion Of The Metal Takes Place, And The Result Is A Brilliant Flash Of Light. Other Substances, In Themselves Non-combustible, May Be Made To Ignite In The Same Way. Indeed, The Flash Lamp Of To-day ...
Iiow To Make A
Iiow To Make A Portable Dark-room Or Developing Cabinet. In The Present Chapter, For The Benefit Of Those Who Cannot Obtain The Exclu Sive Use Of A Room For The Purpose Of Fitting It Up As A Dark-room On The I Lines Already Laid Down, To Describe A Modification Of ...
Iryan Erivan
Erivan, Iryan, Or Irivan, A Town Of Armenia, In The Persian Empire, And Capital Of A Province Of The Same Name. The Province Is Bounded By The Mossian On The North And West, By The Araxes On The South, And By The Districts Of Karabaug And Karadaug On The East. ...
Isociiromatic Or Colour Sensitive Piiotograpfiy
Isociiromatic Or Colour-sensitive Piiotograpfiy. Will Soon Become Apparent, To Even The Most Unobservant Reader, That Photography Does Not With Even Approximate Accuracy Reproduce The True Gradations Of Light And Shade, Nor Render In Monochrome Colours According To Their Proper Value. Ordinary Plates Are Almost Insensitive To Red, Scarcely More So ...
Making Lantern Slides
Making Lantern Slides. I First Commenced The Practice Of Photography The Number Of Amateurs Who Made Their Own Lantern Slides Might Almost Be Counted Upon The Fingers Of One Hand. Since Then Photographic Operations Have Been Almost Revolutionised, And, Owing To The Substitution Of Gelatine For Collodion, And The Introduction ...
Monaciius
Monaciius. Descriptio. Animal Avarum, Fat Idum, Innnundum, Siticulosum, Iners, Incdiam Potius Tolerans Pant La Loren: ; 'vivunt E Rapina Et Questu ; Mundum Sui Tan Tam Causa Creatum Ease Preedicant ; Colunt Clandcsti Ne, Nuptias Non Celebrant, .fietus E.rponunt ; In Pro. Priam Specicm Serriunt, Ct Hostem Ex Insidiis Diuntur. ...
Mounting Trimming
Trimming, Mounting, And Finishing The Prints. Whatever Process The Prints May Have Been Produced, They Will Not Be In A Fit State For Preservation Or Presenta Tion Until They Have Been Suitably Trimmed And Mounted. Now, Although The Mounting And Finishing Of A Print Would At First Sight Appear To ...
Papers Plates
Plates, Papers, Etc., And Their Preparation, It Is Quite Possible To Become A Skilful Photo Grapher, And Yet Know Little Or Nothing Of The Materials Which Are Used In The Production Of The Pictures, It Cannot Be Doubted But That Even A Slight Knowledge Of The Nature And Preparation Of ...
Photographing Architecture
Photographing Architecture. The Chapter Upon The Management Of The Camera No Allusion Was Made To The Use Of The Various Mechanical Devices With Which The Camer3 Is Fitted, The Omission Being Made In Order That The Mind Of The Beginner Might Not Be Confused By Having Too Many Details Presented ...
Portraiture
Portraiture. Writing For Amateurs Upon The Subject Of Portraiture I Arn Strongly Inclined To Repeat The Oft-quoted Advice Given By Punch, To Those About To Marry, And Say " Don't," Only That I Feel It Will Havo But Little Influence Upon The Majority Of My Readers. The First Thing The ...
Printing On Gelatino Ciiloride Printing Out
Printing On Gelatino-ciiloride Printing-out Paper. The Latest Development Of Silver Printing, Has Now Become Exceedingly Popular, And By Most Amateurs Is Pre Ferred To The Albumenised Paper Process Just Described. It Possesses One Great Advantage Over The Latter Process, Which Is That The Surface Of The Print Can Be Rendered ...
Printing Upon Albumenised Paper
Printing Upon Albumenised Paper, The Reader Has Carefully Followed Out The Instructions Contained In The Foregoing Chapters, He Will Probably Have Succeeded In Producing Some Negatives From Which He Will Be Anxious To Obtain Prints. The Negative, Of Course, Is Only A Means To An End, From An Artistic Point ...
Reduction The Intensification
The Intensification, Reduction, And Varnishing Of The Negative. Beginner Will Find, After He Has Exposed A Few Plates, That Ono Of His Greatest Difficulties Will Be To Produce With Certainty Just The Requisite Amount Of Density To Give A Good Print. Some Of His Negatives Will Be Much Too Dense, ...
Shutter Exposures
Shutter Exposures. The Non-photographic Public The Impression Seems To Prevail That All Photographs Are Now Talien By Wbat Is Termed The " Instantaneous Process." I Am Constantly Being Asked Whether I Am Using The " Instantaneous Pro Cess," And When I Reply In The Negative, I Often Fancy I Can ...
Some Elementary Observations Upon
Some Elementary Observations Upon The Artistic Treatment Of Tiie Subject. In The Nature Of A Treatise Upon Art Would Obviously Be Out Of Place In An Elementary Text-book, But Photography And Art Are So Closely United That To Entirely Abstain From Referring To The Subject Would Certainly Be Wrong. I ...
The Dark Room And Its
The Dark-room And Its Fittings. Apartment In Which The Photographer Carries Out His Operations Is Usually, But Erroneously, Termed " The Dark Room," For It Is Not In Reality, Or Should Not Be, " Dark," In The Ordinary Acceptation Of The Term, At All. It Is Not, Of Course, Illuminated ...
The Development Of The
The Development Of The Plate. It Has Been Truly Said By No Less An Authority Than Captain Abney, Whose Works Upon Photography Should Be Studied By All Who Wish To Excel, That The Development Of The Photographic Image Is Both An Art And A Science; And Probably Few Experienced Photographers ...
The Development Of The
The Development Of The Plate Carefully Followed The Instructions For Developing Given In The Preceding Chapter, And Arrived At The Result Therein Recorded, We Proceed To Take The Second Plate In Hand, To Which, It Will Be Remembered, We Gave An Exposure Of Four Seconds. To Do So, We Begin ...
The Lens The
The Lens. The Lens, Without Doubt, Is The Most Important Part Of The Photographer's Equipment, And It Is Essential That He Should N F. V 1,0 .11.1.10g11 It 11-11 Good One. He May Con Trive, With Some Per Sonal Inconvenience, To Turn Out Satisfactory Work With A Faulty Camera, But ...
The Manipulation Of The
The Manipulation Of The Camera In The Field. That The Reader Has Carefully Read The Preceding Chapters, And Acted Upon The Advice Therein Given, He Will Probably Be Eager To Put His Apparatus To A Practical Test By Taking His First Photograph. Let Him, Therefore, Pack Up His Apparatus, And, ...