. The air brush in photography, incorporating a progressive series of lessons . e the photographer as never before to keep abreastand even ahead of the times; it opens the path for new ideas andeffects and most of all the use of ones individuality. If the photographer uses individuality, producing effects thatare attractive, pleasing and strictly up to the minute, then the returnsare sure to be of value, but to produce these effects one must think, 13 study and work. It is the drifting-backward photographer who,realizing the success of one who has thought, studied and workedwhile he or she idl


. The air brush in photography, incorporating a progressive series of lessons . e the photographer as never before to keep abreastand even ahead of the times; it opens the path for new ideas andeffects and most of all the use of ones individuality. If the photographer uses individuality, producing effects thatare attractive, pleasing and strictly up to the minute, then the returnsare sure to be of value, but to produce these effects one must think, 13 study and work. It is the drifting-backward photographer who,realizing the success of one who has thought, studied and workedwhile he or she idled their leisure moments away, offers the excusethat the successful photographer is a genius. In connection with the above, I can do no better than quote thetrue words of Van Amburgh, Genius is the answer you get to thethings you do while the world sleeps, Therefore, may it awakenthose who for years have been asleep to the opportunities that con-front them and bring before the public photographs that are worthyof the name. 14 Chapter ISuggestions For the Use of the Air Brush. F those who have condemned and never tried this vakiableinstrument, or simply tried it in a careless or indifferentway and failed, would devote a few spare moments eachday to its use in an earnest, effort, they wouldfind in a very short time that work can be done in a fewhours that without its aid would take weeks or possiblyeven a greater time to produce. The photographer who uses the brush in his studio finds that hecan and does produce effects on photographs that would otherwise bepractically impossible, and then again, the ease with which one canapply color in soft and blending tones can be realized only by thosewho have mastered its use. The true student undoubtedly will find the Air Brush well worthevery dollar it may cost in the making of good vignettes, whereasoften, on account of short exposures or possibly a white backgroundsoiled from dust and age, etc., the would-be white ground has t


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