The American annual of photography . WHERE THE WAVES MEET. JOHN CHISLETT. 219. A PAGEANT OF THE SEA By WILLIAM FINDLAY HE accompanying illustration was a chancesnap-shot taken one beautiful July morningsome years ago, not long after I had beeninitiated into the mysteries of plate it was secured on I forget, but thelens used was a Bausch & Lomb R. R. with a shutter by thesame firm, and the exposure given was i/ioo of a print from which the reproduction was taken was froman untouched negative. If the negative has a fault it is thatit is a trifle hard, and with certain
The American annual of photography . WHERE THE WAVES MEET. JOHN CHISLETT. 219. A PAGEANT OF THE SEA By WILLIAM FINDLAY HE accompanying illustration was a chancesnap-shot taken one beautiful July morningsome years ago, not long after I had beeninitiated into the mysteries of plate it was secured on I forget, but thelens used was a Bausch & Lomb R. R. with a shutter by thesame firm, and the exposure given was i/ioo of a print from which the reproduction was taken was froman untouched negative. If the negative has a fault it is thatit is a trifle hard, and with certain classes of Bromide paperthe resultant print is hard also. The aim of a photographer in quest of pictures of thisnature, where the contrasts are exceedingly great, ought to beto secure a soft negative, and any recent ones I have securedhave been of this nature. The developer used was Pyro-soda,with just as little Pyro as possible. When the image appears,or rather after all the principal features in it are visible, theplate, without any washing, is placed in a pail of co
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