. Photographic pastimes : a series of interesting experiments for amateurs for obtaining novel and curious effects with the aid of the camera. sisting of a wooden stand with a recess, STATUARY PORTRAITS. 97 which outwardly shows the shape of apedestal in imitation of marble or sitter kneels or stands behind thestand, pressing his body into the , as far as it seems to be necessary,his breast is uncovered, and a white clothplaced round it, and arranged artisticallyin delicate folds, so that a connectionwith the pedestal is produced by it. Asa background a black cloth or an
. Photographic pastimes : a series of interesting experiments for amateurs for obtaining novel and curious effects with the aid of the camera. sisting of a wooden stand with a recess, STATUARY PORTRAITS. 97 which outwardly shows the shape of apedestal in imitation of marble or sitter kneels or stands behind thestand, pressing his body into the , as far as it seems to be necessary,his breast is uncovered, and a white clothplaced round it, and arranged artisticallyin delicate folds, so that a connectionwith the pedestal is produced by it. Asa background a black cloth or any othervery dark material is used, and to impartto the bust the appearance of plaster ormarble, the face, the neck, the arms, andthe hair of the sitter should be thoroughlypowdered with rice flour. After develop-ing and finishing the negative a sharppenknife is passed round the outlines ofthe figure and of those parts of the bustwhich are to be reproduced, and theportions of the negative outside this in-cision are then scratched off. In thisway in printing a white statuary portraiton a black ground is obtained. 98 PHOTOGRAPHIC Fig. 36.—Arrangement to Produce Statuary Portraits. The statuesque photograph of whichwe give a reproduction in fig. 37 wasproduced in a somewhat different screen was obtained the shape of thebust required, and made of some very-dark material (red baize was found to STATUARY PORTRAITS. QQ
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