The American annual of photography . dd to the beauty and effectiveness of the entire picture. My exposures as a rule are made on either film or Ortho-chromatic plates without the use of a ray filter or screen ofany kind, excepting in a very few instances. Exposures were,comparatively speaking, fast ones, averaging, I might say,1/50 of a second. In developing I used an ordinary M. , excepting that I decreased the amount of carbonateof soda to be found in the average formula by seventy-fiveper cent; in other words, I used one-quarter the amount ofcarbonate called for. This made a solu
The American annual of photography . dd to the beauty and effectiveness of the entire picture. My exposures as a rule are made on either film or Ortho-chromatic plates without the use of a ray filter or screen ofany kind, excepting in a very few instances. Exposures were,comparatively speaking, fast ones, averaging, I might say,1/50 of a second. In developing I used an ordinary M. , excepting that I decreased the amount of carbonateof soda to be found in the average formula by seventy-fiveper cent; in other words, I used one-quarter the amount ofcarbonate called for. This made a solution that workedslowly and which gave me what might be called a thin nega-tive, which, by the way, is the only kind that I have everfound that will make prints giving the correct moonlighteffect. To sum the matter up, I give a rapid exposure, use a de-veloper with a minimum amount of carbonate and developfor detail in the clouds only, letting the balance of the picturetake care of itself. In printing, as a rule, I over-expose and 92. Illustrating Article Moonlight Pictures, by H. Oliver Bodine. slightly under-develop, thereby obtaining a print free fromintense blacks, at the same time preserving detail, etc., in theclouds and avoiding unnecessary halation around the sun. In trimming the prints endeavor to avoid placing the sunin the middle of the picture; have it to either side and abovethe center. Have never done any doctoring or faking of anykind on my negatives as I have found it is quite unnecessarywhen precaution is taken in exposure and development. Ihave seen some very fine moonlight pictures wherein the moon,etc., were worked in, yet I have never been an advocate ofworking up prints or negatives to any great extent because of 93 the fact that I beheve that this is wholly unnecessary if thoughtand attention is given the matter before the exposure is have yet to find one of my friends whom I interested inmoonlight pictures who has but the highest praise for thisbra
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