Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . them with a rod.—Dr. H. W. Vogel. 38. I have found the hand-screen of much greater value than at first I supposed itwould be. At first I only used it to get effects that could not be obtained by means ofsliding screens and curtains. Now, however, I use it on all occasions, and can hardlymake a negative without it. Leaving my light entirely open, I sit my subject down almost anywhere, and get justthe effects I desire, with no trouble or delay in arranging screen
Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . them with a rod.—Dr. H. W. Vogel. 38. I have found the hand-screen of much greater value than at first I supposed itwould be. At first I only used it to get effects that could not be obtained by means ofsliding screens and curtains. Now, however, I use it on all occasions, and can hardlymake a negative without it. Leaving my light entirely open, I sit my subject down almost anywhere, and get justthe effects I desire, with no trouble or delay in arranging screen and reflectors andcurtains. I have been to hundreds of dollars expense in putting up various contrivances bywhich to control the light so as to get the desired softness in the negative, but have beenunable in any other way to produce such results as are obtained at once with the hand-screen. I also find my sitters invariably do better than in the old way, saying they never satfor pictures so comfortably, and with so little fatigue to the eye. On the whole, as simple as it seems, there is no doubt that it is the most valuable. UNDER THE SKYLIGHT. 107 39. A hundred methods have been adopted for constructing head-screensand for using them. None give the artist the power he has with the hand-invention for the management of light that has been gotten up since photographs werefirst made. In my gallery I could better afford to pay a thousand dollars a year than do withoutit, and I am sure it would make more than that difference in the business, to say nothingof the ease and facility with which the work is done.—J. H. Kent. 39. The one difficulty I find with the screens generally in use is the amount oftimber used in their construction, rendering them cumbersome and unwieldy, and imi)os-sible to get out of the way when not in use. The object of this is to illustrate my methodof overcoming this difficulty. The accompanying cut (Fig. 112) tells nearly the whole story. An iron rod «
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