. Photographic pastimes : a series of interesting experiments for amateurs for obtaining novel and curious effects with the aid of the camera. PHOTOGRAPHS. 6l raised so that it is placed in a plane withthe head of the sitter. On the otherhand, caricature photographs with largefigures and small heads are obtained bylowering the mirror to one-third of theheight of the sitter. If the camera,which in the previous experiments hasbeen placed exactly opposite the head ofthe sitter, is placed sideways, the person/ will then appear curved. A silveredglass globe of the largest diameterpossible, such as
. Photographic pastimes : a series of interesting experiments for amateurs for obtaining novel and curious effects with the aid of the camera. PHOTOGRAPHS. 6l raised so that it is placed in a plane withthe head of the sitter. On the otherhand, caricature photographs with largefigures and small heads are obtained bylowering the mirror to one-third of theheight of the sitter. If the camera,which in the previous experiments hasbeen placed exactly opposite the head ofthe sitter, is placed sideways, the person/ will then appear curved. A silveredglass globe of the largest diameterpossible, such as is found in many gardens,may be used as a convex mirror. Variouseffects may be secured also by alteringthe angle at which the mirror is placed,or substituting for it a long, egg-shapedconcave mirror, placed lengthways or thereverse, (ig.) Another plan consists of the following:A foreground, on which a grotesque body(^^ grotesque diminutive, as it has beencalled by the American inventor) ispainted—for instance, a flying goose, a 62 PHOTOGRAPHIC PASTIMES. man riding a donkey, a baseball player,a man standing in a hat, etc.—is held by. the sitter on his knees, so that his headappears just above the neck of the CARICATURE PHOTOGRAPHS. 63 painted body while the exposure is beingmade. In the finished photograph thecaricature appears with the sittershead. The upper edge of the fore-ground, which in the negative crosses
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