The American annual of photography . ar field of photography have fully convinced methat any one who is familiar with either copying, enlarging, ortransparency making, should with very little practice soon beable to produce some very beautiful results. Before proceeding it might not be amiss to explain in detailwhat the real meaning of a Dore-type is, in what way does itdiffer from the ordinary photograph that it should be consid-ered so much more beautiful and so much more artistic. Whatare its limitations if any, and lastly how is the Dore-type pro-duced? Answering these questions in the ord
The American annual of photography . ar field of photography have fully convinced methat any one who is familiar with either copying, enlarging, ortransparency making, should with very little practice soon beable to produce some very beautiful results. Before proceeding it might not be amiss to explain in detailwhat the real meaning of a Dore-type is, in what way does itdiffer from the ordinary photograph that it should be consid-ered so much more beautiful and so much more artistic. Whatare its limitations if any, and lastly how is the Dore-type pro-duced? Answering these questions in the order given, we may definethe Dore-type as a transparent photograph on glass. After re-development it is backed by a piece of glass with a suitable illu-minating medium such as tinted silk or colored cardboard be-tween them. Then passe-partout these three units together toinsure firmness and the Dore-type is complete. In this man-ner we obtain a reproduction which in richness of tone grada-tion and softness of modeling has no rival. 34. THE ORANGE. SIDNEY V. WEBB. 35 Portraits as well as landscapes are equally well suited to thisprocess and produce equally effective results. I have seen somelandscapes enlarged from small negatives of vest pocket sizeand finished by the Dore-type process, so beautiful, so mar-velously true to nature, and so full of atmosphere that theymight well be considered masterpieces of the art of photog-raphy. Portraits, especially large heads in Rembrandt, orbroad lighting, are particularly well suited to this method ofreproduction. One of the chief characteristics, and in a mea-sure the main recommendation of the Dore-type is its ability toimpart a certain true-to-life roundness and plasticity to thefeatures of the subject, thus emphasizing those salient char-acteristics of the individual so important in a good portrait. There are three ways in which the Dore-type may be pro-duced. Of course I do by no means wish to create the im-pression that these three m
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