The American annual of photography . Figure 7. regardless of daylight saving, so the standard is uniform,summer and winter alike. No. 2, Sunset, like the needle-hole, was made with theidea of showing what is possible in the yellow light of thesetting sun by the seashore. It will be noticed that the directrays of weak sunshine were not enough to cause fog or hala-tion, and yet the scene is sufficiently well lighted for a snap-shot. Data: p. m. in June, , 1/25 sec. No filter. No. 3, A Pacific Comber, was made in August at m., weather dull and cloudy. , 1/25 sec. This showst
The American annual of photography . Figure 7. regardless of daylight saving, so the standard is uniform,summer and winter alike. No. 2, Sunset, like the needle-hole, was made with theidea of showing what is possible in the yellow light of thesetting sun by the seashore. It will be noticed that the directrays of weak sunshine were not enough to cause fog or hala-tion, and yet the scene is sufficiently well lighted for a snap-shot. Data: p. m. in June, , 1/25 sec. No filter. No. 3, A Pacific Comber, was made in August at m., weather dull and cloudy. , 1/25 sec. This showsthe advantage of keeping the camera low down: it was on theunextended tripod, placed close to the edge of the surf. No. 4, Where the Surges Ever Roar, on a cloudless dayin mid-December, with the sun nearly ahead. F/32, 1/40 sec. 260. 0. C. CONKLING. 261 Nos. 5 and 6, Sunshine on the Breakers, and The Foun-tains of the Deep. were made on the same day, betweenI and 2 p. m. on Jan. ist, with the sun well ahead. F/32,1/40 sec. Taken while standing in the surf in a bathing suit. No. 7, A Long Roller. A winter evening, dark and stormy,in Santa Cruz Bay, Cahfornia. p. m., , 1/25 of the longest curling rollers I ever saw; it extended con-siderably to the left of the limits of the print. No. 8, The Restless Sea, Sept. 3 p. m., sunshine, horizoncloudy, F/32, 1/25 sec. Perhaps I should have specified that the automatic shutteron my kodak had been recently overhauled and tested, thereport of the test being that the two highest speeds markedi/ioo and 1/50 were both actually 1/40, and the other speedsapproximately as marked. It will be noticed that in the prints I have chosen for illus-trating this epistle, I have not attempted anything out of theordinary; just common everyday subjects which with averageluck a
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