Anthony's photographic bulletin for .. . s. What a weird effect! Well, well try it. Lights poor; no effect, says one. Dontmatter, I want a mist effect, says the hand camenst. The readerscan see if he obtained it. The print, as a picture of the scene, weall liked, and, liking, vowed that a dark day, with mist and a handcamera, were, after all, not a bad combination with which to secureThe Dark Dreary Winter and Wild Driving Snow. Backwoods Trysting in Winter was the title of a picture secured n6 under somewhat similar circumstances, although later in the day andnot so much mist. A Miners Mansio
Anthony's photographic bulletin for .. . s. What a weird effect! Well, well try it. Lights poor; no effect, says one. Dontmatter, I want a mist effect, says the hand camenst. The readerscan see if he obtained it. The print, as a picture of the scene, weall liked, and, liking, vowed that a dark day, with mist and a handcamera, were, after all, not a bad combination with which to secureThe Dark Dreary Winter and Wild Driving Snow. Backwoods Trysting in Winter was the title of a picture secured n6 under somewhat similar circumstances, although later in the day andnot so much mist. A Miners Mansion had a mountain cliff, or bluff,as Westerners term it, rising- abruptly behind it. The mist in this instance also shows what can be done in changingthe whole appearance of the surroundings. I found that the sun was a hard subject to deal with in snow work,and also, whether the trees were bare of snow or crisply Sun did not improve matters in the least, and more pleasing workcould be obtained when his bright face was Ill \ I INC. Willi A MASCOT. Half Tone i\ s> hool ol Process E ngraving. Elk, and the Last Shell, was taken in bright sunlight, as was also•• A Northern Angelo. Much better results might have been seen inhad the sun kindly absented himself. As real snow daysdom, however, the best we knew how was done under the cir umstan ill plates were secured OH Blair film, POCO camera, and I think some really excellent work can be done on films. Certainly they are handy, reliable and rapid. •: with ore toni the gold mines wore also taken onfilm posure being i 15 oi a second. It may probably interest you- the plates I found most satisfactory in this work. I had ortho plates, process plates, rapid plates and dry collodion.
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