Amateur Portraiture By Flashlight
Amateur Portraiture By Flashlight. To Say That The Flash Has Decided Advantages Over Daylight For Doing Really Serious Work In Portraiture Would Seem Ridiculous To Many People ; But It Is A Fact That Any Effect Which Can Be Had With Day Light Can Also Be Made With The Flash ...
American Platinum Paper
American Platinum Paper. In The Production Of The American Platinum Paper Two Very Serious Defects In The Platinum Paper Heretofore Manufactured Have Been Overcome. First, Solarizing In Shadows; Second, The Fuzzing Or Abrading Of Surface By Handling. The Manipulation Of This Paper Is Very Simple, And With A Reason Able ...
Animals
Animals. As A Sport, Wild Animal Photography Should Enjoy A Far Greater Popu Larity Than It Does, For Anything More Exciting Than Stalking A Wild Animal With The Camera Is Hard To Imagine. Usually It Is Impossible To Approach As Near As One Wishes To Animals In Their Native Haunts, ...
Carbon Printing
Carbon Printing. It Is Very Doubtful Whether Any Process So Completely Fills The Require Ments Of The Artistic Photographer As Does The Carbon Process. Its Long Scale, Reproducing Perfectly Every Gradation Of The Original Negative, Its Permanence, Its Great Variety Of Color, Its Wonderful Transparency In The Deepest Shadows, And ...
Clouds And The Landscape
Clouds And The Landscape. The Subjea Of Clouds In Photography Is One That, Although Given Some Thought By Advanced Amateurs, Has Not Been Given The Attention Which It Deserves. It Is Not Alone An Interesting Study, But It Is Necessary That One Understand How To Produce Clouds In His Pictures ...
Corrected Lenses
Corrected Lenses. All Glass, When Ground Into Lenses, Has The Quality Of Dispersing The Different Colored Rays So That They Will Not Focus At The Same Point. The Rays Which Ad On The Sensitive Surface Are Those From The Violet End Of The Spedrum And Are Called The Adinic Or ...
Cut Flowers
Cut Flowers. Perhaps Few Branches Of Photography Are More Neglected Than The Picturing Of Cut Flowers. Why It Should Be So Is Not Easy To Say. The Difficulties Are Not So Very Great And Every Owner Of A Kodak Can Be Sure Of Success After A Little Careful Experimenting. With ...
Defective Negatives
Defective Negatives. Defective Nega;ives May Be Caused By Under Or Over Exposure Or By Careless Handling During Development And Subsequent Operations. Over Or Under-development Is Usually Occasioned By The Faet That The Inexperienced Operator Is Unable To Tell, Under The Dark-room Light, In Hether He Has Carried The Develop Ment ...
Development
Development. The Print Being Ready For Development, We Prepare Two Dishes Of Cold Water, One Dish Of Five Per Cent. Alum Solution, A Tank Or Basin Of Hot Water About Ioo° F., A Squeegee And Squeegeeing Board. Taking A Piece Of The Single Transfer Paper, Rather Larger Than The Print, ...
Development
Development. Film Photography Offers Two Methods Of Development. They Are : The Kodak Tank Developer Method. The Dark Room Method. The Tank Method Is Comparatively New Yet It Has Now Proven Its Effi Ciency And Has Fully Demonstrated That It Is Not Only More Convenient Than The Old Method But ...
Double Transfer Process
Double Transfer Process. As Pointed Out Earlier In This Article, The Foregoing Method Reverses The Picture Unless A Negative Has Been Specially Made For Single Transfer In The First Instance. For Direct Prints Where Reversal Would Be Objectionable, We Must Use The Double Transfer Process, Which Is Quite As Easy ...
Enlarging On Bromide Paper
Enlarging On Bromide Paper With The Kodak. Most Amateurs Are Aware That Beautiful Enlargements Of Almost Any Size Can Be Made From Kodak Or Any Small Negatives, But Are Possessed Of The Idea That The Process Of Enlarging Is Intricate And Requires A Great Deaf Of Apparatus And Technical Skill. ...
Exposure
Exposure. At This Stage Of Your Photographic Career You Should Learn To Properly Expose The Film, Then To Develop It. When You Are Proficient In These Rudimentary Principles, It Will Be Time To Take Up The Simpler Methods Of Printing, After Which You Will Be Instrudted In The More Artistic ...
Fish
Fish. Here We Have The Easiest Branch Of Nature Photography. Beautiful Fish Pictures Can Be Made By Any One Having Ordinary Skill With The Kodak. All That Is Necessary Is An Aquarium Which May Be Made In The Form Of A Box With One Glass Side And A Movable Glass ...
Fixed Focus
" Fixed Focus " Lenses Are So Often Mentioned In Catalogues And Advertisements That The Impression Has Gained Ground That This Is Some Distind Kind Of Lens, With The Extraordinary Power Of Focusing All Objects Near And Far In One Plane. There Is No Inherent Quality In Any Lens That ...
Fixing
Fixing. Sodium Hypo-sulphite (or Hypo As Commercially Termed) May Be Obtained For Use In Either A Granulated Or Crystal Form. Its Purpose Is To Reduce The Silver Salts Which Have Not Been Acted Upon By Light. The Importance Of This Chemical Is Evident, But It Is Probable That No Part ...
Focusing
Focusing. If Your Kodak Makes Piures X Inches Or Larger, You Must Look To Your Focusing As Well As To The Matter Of Light And Stops. The Manual Accompanying The Instrument Explains How To Do This, But Some Thing Of The Reasons For The Necessity Of It May Be Of ...
For Redder Tones
For Redder Tones Add More Of The Sepia Solution. After The Sepia Solution Has Been Added To The Developer, Allow The Mixture To Boil For A Few Moments. When Cold, The Bath Is Ready For Use. Allow The Prints To Remain In The Bath Until Full Strength And Brilliance • ...
Growing Flowers
Growing Flowers. In Order To Be Successful In Photographing Growing Flowers, It Is Absolutely Essential To Choose Only Days When There Is No Wind. The Slightest Breeze Makes The Work Unsatisfactory, If Not Impossible. Clear Sunlight Or Cloudy Days Are Both Good For The Work, The Latter Giving In Most ...
Home Portraiture
Home Portraiture. The Author Of This Article, In Company With Mr. G. E. Trager, Has Praeliced " Home Portraiture " With A Kodak For Eleven Years, With The Most Notable Success. The Wide Difference In The Light Conditions In The Various Houses Where The Pietures Have Been Made, Rendered It ...
Interiors By Flashlight
Interiors By Flashlight. The Foregoing Article By Mr. Ritch Thoroughly Covers The Ground Of Flashlight Portraiture But We Wish To Follow It Up With A Few Remarks Upon Flashlight Work In A General Way. Aside From The Making Of Portraits There Are Many Uses For The Flash. Frequently It Is ...
Landscape Photography
Landscape Photography. The Photographic Study Of Nature Will Always Remain A Chief Source Of Pleasure To The Enthusiastic Amateur, Giving As It Does The Opportunities, Nowhere Else Obtained, To Display His Taste In Choice Of Composition, And His Ideas Of That Which Is Most Pleasing To The Eye. Care In ...
Lighting The Subject
Lighting The Subject. The Lighting Of Your Subject Is A Matter Of Importance, Having Much To Do With The Results Obtained And Enhancing The Value Of The Composition. Beginners, As A Rule, When Making Exposures In The Sunlight, Should Have The Sun Behind The Back Or Over The Shoulder, But ...
Loading The Camera
Loading The Camera. On The Supposition That You Have Taken The Advice Given In The Previous Pages And Purchased A Film Camera, We Will First Give You A Few Hints About Loading With Film. With A Kodak This Operation Is Performed In Daylight And Is Very Simple. The Film Is ...
Making Lantern Slides
Making Lantern Slides. There Is No Pleasanter Part Of The Art Photographic Than The Making Of Lantern Slides. Permanent Bromide Lantern Slide Plates Are Coated With An Emulsion Similar To That Used On Bromide Paper And Are Developed In Exactly The Same Manner. Lantern Slides Can Be Made By Contact ...
Measuring The Light
Measuring The Light. Now Comes A Very Important Part Of The Work—measuring The Light— In Order To Give The Correct Exposure. The System Of Measurement Which The Author Herewith Presents Has Been Practiced By Him With The Very Best Results. The System Is Based Upon The Fact That Solio Paper ...
Metric System
Metric System. Water, Ro Ozs.=,30o C. C. Metol, - - - - - - 7 Grains=y2 Gramme - - - - 3o Grains=2 Grammes Sulphite Soda (desiccated) - - It° Grains=7 Grammes Carbonate Soda (desiccated) - Zoo Grains=r3 Grammes Io Per Cent. Solution Bromide Potassium, 4o Drops—go Drops This Solution ...
Mounting
Mounting. The Most Satisfactory Method For Mounting Prints Of Any Size Is By The Use Of Kodak Dry Mounting Tissue, As By The Use Of This Tissue The Print Lies Perfectly Flat In Absolute Contact Even On The Thinnest Mount, And Absolutely Without Curl. The Tissue Comes In Flat Sheets, ...
Notes On Washing
Notes On Washing. The Finished Prints Must Be Entirely Free From Hypo. To Wash A Batch Of Foo 4 X 5 Prints, Using Tw O Trays Of Suitable Size And Transferring Each Print Separately From One Tray To The Other, Changing The Water At Least Twelve Times, Will Take A ...
Old And Young Away
Old And Young Away From The Nest. Once The Young Have Left Their Nest, There Are About Two Days Before They Learn To Fly Well Enough To Keep Out Of One's Reach. This Is The Ideal Time For Getting Photographs Of Them, As They Are Just As Dependent On Their ...
Out Door Work
Out-door Work. The Foregoing Have Given You Pra&ical Instruetions In The Manipulation Of Your Kodak, The Selection Of Stop And Exposure For The Various Lines Of Work. The Question Now Arises In Your Mind "what Shall I Take? " Probably Like Most Beginners You Desire To Make Your First Attempts ...
Out Of Door Portraiture
Out-of-door Portraiture. Probably No Branch Of The Photographic Art Is Followed By More People Than Out-of-door Portraiture. It Seems To Be The Aim Of Almost Every Novice To Make Portraits Of His Friends Or Family, And On Account Of The Abundance Of Light Many Beginners Make Their Early Attempts Out ...
Papers
Papers. When I Say Plain Papers I Mean, Of Course, Papers Without A Superficial Coating Of Gelatine Or Albumen. In The Choice Of These For Salting And Sensitizing There Is No Restriction Except That Of Chemical Purity, And No Difficulties In Manipulation Greater Than Will Be Met With In Any ...
Photographing Moving Objects
Photographing Moving Objects. In Most Instances Where The Beginner Attempts The Photographing Of Moving Objects, The Result Will Be Disappointing, This Is Due Solely To His Lack Of Appreciation Of The Circumstances And The Actual Conditions Confronting Him. For Example, He Takes His Camera To The Race Track To Photograph ...
Pictorial Photography
Pictorial Photography. Pictorial Photography May Be Broadly Divided Into Two Classes ; Land Scapes And Figure Studies. Either Line Is A Study Of Itself, Yet So Much Depends Upon The Personality Of The Operator That We Can Only Indicate A Few Of The Qualities, Some At Least Of Which Are ...
Platinum Papers
Platinum Papers. The Simplicity Of Platinum Printing Will Prove A Revelation To The Amateur Photographer Who Imagines That The Process Must Be Difficult Because So Much Employed By Advanced Workers. As A Matter Of Fact, Platinum Printing Presents No More Difficulties Than The Ordinary Blue Print Process So Familiar To ...
Printing
Printing. Having Developed The Negatives, The Final Step In Picture Making Is Now In Order—making The Prints. For Printing There Are Many Papers— Grouped Under Two General Classes, " Printing Out " Papers, Where The Image Is Visible After Printing And " Developing Out " Papers Which Require A Developing ...
Printing Out Papers
Printing-out Papers. Printing-out Papers Are So Called Because, Unlike A Negative, The Image Appears Without Development, And They Require Only Toning And Fix Ing. Printing-out Papers Are Simple To Handle, And Are Popular With Both Professionals And Amateurs. Indeed, Nearly All Of The Paper Used By Pro Fessional Photographers In ...
Printing Requisites
Printing Requisites. The Absolute Necessities For Making Velox Prints Are Few In Number And Simple In Character. Either Day Light Or Artificial Light Are Of Course Essential, Also Developing Solutions And Water For Washing The Prints. The Ordinary Printing Frame Is Used In Making Exposures. The Artistic Possi Bilities Of ...
Printing On Matte Collodion
Printing On Matte Collodion Paper. Print Deep Or Until The High Lights Are Well Tinted. Pay No Attention To The Shadows No Matter How Much They Bronze. That Will Tone Out. Negatives Should Be Printed In The Shade, While Those That Are Dense And Have Much Contrast Can Be Printed ...
Printing_2
Printing. You Are Now Ready For Exposure And The Printing Frame Should Be Filled. Place The Sensitized Side Of The Sheet Of Velox Against The Film Side Of The Negative, The Paper Curls Slightly, The Sensitive Side Being Concave. An Absolute Test Is To Bite The Corner Of The Sheet, ...
Reduction
Reduction. When Either Reducing Or Intensifying Is To Be Done It Is Desirable To Use A Freshly Mixed Hypo Bath For Fixing—otherwise Stains May Result And The Negatives Are Liable To Fade After Intensification. If Any Negative Is More Intense Than Is Desirable For The Paper That Is To Be ...
Sepia Tones On Velox
Sepia Tones On Velox. There Are Occasions When It Is Desirable To Modify The Tone Of Velox Prints, In Order To Secure Some Effect More In Keeping With The Subject Than The Original Color Produced By Development Only. The Sepia Tone Is Permanent And May Be Secured In Various Ways, ...
Simplicity In Composition
Simplicity In Composition. The Request Of The Publishers Of This Book To Write For Them An Article Of Fifteen Hundred Words Upon Simplicity In Composition, Reminds Me Of The College Professor Who Was Accustomed To Call Upon His Students For Extempore Dissertations Upon Subjeets Which He Would Suddenly Propound. Unconscious ...
Snap Shots
-snap Shots. Instantaneous Exposures, Or " Snap Shots ", As They Are More Frequently Called, Are Usually Made While The Camera Is Held In The Hand And Are About The First Thing That The Amateur Attempts. Some Learned Writers Deprecate This, But As Snap Shots Are The Simplest Exposures To ...
Some Practical Hints On
Some Practical Hints On Winter Photography. Serving As Judge At The Various Photographic Exhibitions And Competi Tions—as It Has Quite Often Been My Lot—it Has Always Excited My Wonder ; Why The Majority Of Amateurs So Utterly Fail To Comprehend The Beauties Of A Season Which Has Always Seemed The ...
Stops
Stops. A Volume Might Be Written On The Subject Of Stops, But A Few Lines Will Suffice To Give The Amateur An Idea Of Why They Are Necessary, And How They Should Be Used. The Best Part Of A Lens Is Its Center, 1. C., Those Rays Of Light Which ...
Street Photography
Street Photography. There Are A Few Points That Are Essential To All Those Who Are About To Attempt Street Work, One Of Which Is To Work Quickly, Attra&ing As Little Attention As Possible ; Another Is To Be Able To Take In A Pleasing And Attra6live Situation At A Glance. ...
The Choice Of The
The Choice Of The Camera. With The Products That Exist To-day, The Hand Camera Is Pre-eminently The Most Desirable Instrument For The Amateur Photographer, Whether He Be Novice Or Expert. When Amateur Photography First Began, Some Twenty Years Ago, To Be Popular With The Public, There Was A General Outcry ...
The Dark Room Method
The Dark-room Method. The First Essential Is A Dark-room. By A Dark-room Is Meant One That Is Wholly Dark—not A Ray Of Light In It. Such A Room Can Easily Be Secured At Night Almost Anywhere. The Reason A Dark-room Is Required Is That The Film Is Extremely Sensitive To ...
The Gum Bichromate Process
The Gum-bichromate Process. When A Photographer Has Had The Courage To Go Through Some Technical Article On The Working Of A New Printing Process, He Feels The Joyous Conviction That On Following Closely The Author's Instructions He Will Be Able To Produce A Good Print By The Process As Described ...
The Nest
The Nest. For Nest Photography A Tripod Is In Nearly All Cases Necessary, Other Wise You Have Under-exposed Films Through Trying To Make Snap Shots When A Time Exposure Is Demanded. In Selecting Your Point Of View, Place The Camera So That If Possible The Eggs Are Just Visible. Do ...
The Toning Bath
The Toning Bath. Tone In A Plain Gold Bath, Using About I Gr. Of Gold To 48 Ozs. Of Water. Neutralize By Adding A Saturated Solution Of Borax, Bi-carbonate Of Soda Or Sal Soda. This Should Be Made Up At Least One-half Hour Before Using ; This Gives The Chemicals ...
Time Expositres Indoors
Time Expositres Indoors. First Put The Camera In Position. The Diagram Shows The Proper Position For The Camera. It Should Not Be Pointed Direetly At A Window As The Glare Of Light Will Blur The Pidure. If All The Windows Cannot Be Avoided, Pull Down The Shades Of Such As ...
Transposing Negatives
Transposing Negatives. If You Wish To Make A Quantity Of Prints From One Set Of Negatives, It Would Be Advisable To Transpose The Negatives Themselves In Order That The Prints Therefrom Be Identical. A Stereo Kodak Cutting Guide Is Furnished With Each Stereoscopic Kodak. This Guide May Be Used To ...
Trim Trim
Trim, Trim, Trim. Trim Your Prints Mercilessly. It Is Safe To Say That Three Pictures Out Of Every Four Can Be Improved By A Judicious Use Of The Shears. One Picture Has Too Much Sky, Another Too Much Foreground And Another One A Whole Side With Nothing In It Worth ...
Utilizing The Kodak For
Utilizing The Kodak For Enlarging. Most Of The Present Models Of The Kodak Can Be Utilized For Enlarging, Excepting Only Those Models Not Permitting The Removal Of The Back And The Racking Back And Forth Of The Lens. The Use Of Kodaks Such As The No. 2 Flexo And No. ...
Water Development Papers
Water Development Papers. Every Amateur Who Has Limited Facilities And Time Will Especially Appreciate A Paper Which Requires Nothing But Water And Acid For The Entire Process Of Developing And Clearing. In W. D. (water Development) Platinum One Has A Paper Giving Pure Platinum Tones And Producing Effeas Equal To ...
Young And Old Birds
Young And Old Birds Together. It Is At This Stage In Bird Photography That One's Troubles Really Begin. And Yet To Make One Success Gives So Much Satisfaction That The Cost Of Failures Is Easily Forgotten. When The Young Birds Are In Their Nest They Are Of Course Entirely Dependent ...