. Photographic pastimes : a series of interesting experiments for amateurs for obtaining novel and curious effects with the aid of the camera. Fig. 34.—Composite Photograph of 12 Fig. 35.—Composite Photograph of 16 Naturalists. g6 PHOTOGRAPHIC PASTIMES. a case of portraying five sisters, sup-posing the correct exposure of a singleface on a slow plate should be two seconds,divide the time as follows : Give thefirst face 3, the second 2J, the third 2^the fourth ij, and the fifth one second. Composite pictures are of value onlywhen restricted to one family, to onenationality, to


. Photographic pastimes : a series of interesting experiments for amateurs for obtaining novel and curious effects with the aid of the camera. Fig. 34.—Composite Photograph of 12 Fig. 35.—Composite Photograph of 16 Naturalists. g6 PHOTOGRAPHIC PASTIMES. a case of portraying five sisters, sup-posing the correct exposure of a singleface on a slow plate should be two seconds,divide the time as follows : Give thefirst face 3, the second 2J, the third 2^the fourth ij, and the fifth one second. Composite pictures are of value onlywhen restricted to one family, to onenationality, to one tribe. When extendedto a heterogeneous class of forty or moreindividuals, the result will tend to illus-trate not the average intelligence, but theaverage imbecility of the class, be it ofprofessors or pupils. (33.) STATUARY PORTRAITS. These pictures are photographic por-traits which for the moment make theimpression of photographic copies fromplaster or marble busts. They may bepi:oduced as follows : At first a pedestal is procured, con-sisting of a wooden stand with a recess, STATUARY PORTRAITS. 97 which outwardly shows the shape of apedestal in imitation of marble or


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