. Rod and gun. negatives spoiled by just this trouble. Then, too, it is not necessary to touch on marine viewswith a sunset for a background. They are common, but some-how always pretty, though it has been said with no smalldegree of truth that they owe their beauty to the fact that tobring them out aa moonlights (which is always thecasei it is necessary to print imtil all the defects are coveredover,—an easy method of getting an effective picture with littletrouble, and somewhat of a lazy mans way. The kind ofchaps that go in for this sort of picture are the ones that takethem to a g


. Rod and gun. negatives spoiled by just this trouble. Then, too, it is not necessary to touch on marine viewswith a sunset for a background. They are common, but some-how always pretty, though it has been said with no smalldegree of truth that they owe their beauty to the fact that tobring them out aa moonlights (which is always thecasei it is necessary to print imtil all the defects are coveredover,—an easy method of getting an effective picture with littletrouble, and somewhat of a lazy mans way. The kind ofchaps that go in for this sort of picture are the ones that takethem to a gallery to be developed. Nevertheless a sunset overthe water is, in spite of all. despite all argument, a most strikingaffair unle.*.- overdone. Catch it some day when the long blackclouds are interspersed with equally long of red andyellow, and then try it and see if Im not right. Of the many other entrancing little pictures that are to behad along the shore and back over the banks, I am going to say. nothing. The trees that make such grotesipie pictures, thecharming twifted roads over-lmng with good-looking trees, thesutnrncr camix-rs, and the picturesijiU old farmer with his strawhat and much Ix-patchcd breeches, will bi all passed over, andwe will goon to just a woril mi the manipulation of photograinsof till iMiii-h ty|ie. In looking at it from this standpoint itmight (>e said that there is nothing to .say, and then again itmight be that it would be possible lo say a lot more than I amgoing to. In the first place, you never want to take a .eaacapewithout clouds. To my mind there is absohitily nothing thatlooki worse than a picture of water that has been left bald-headed, .virt of seems as if something was missing Myfavorite method is to use that old schenx- of a 10 per cent solu-tion of bromide of p seconds, and tlii-n witha tuft of aljeorbunt cotton apply the solution to ihe sky-half. It is


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