The American annual of photography . eople that it ever disap-peared as it has. The reason has often beenasked and many different answers have been given to thequestion. To my mind the principal reason was the careless-ness often displayed in the printing and mounting of the viewsor stereographs, to say nothing of the fraud often displayedin deliberately mounting the views wrongly in order to cutprices and cheat the purchaser. Properly made there is nothingin the photographic line that gives more pleasure or satisfactionthan really good stereoscopic pictures, and if these few hintswill help so
The American annual of photography . eople that it ever disap-peared as it has. The reason has often beenasked and many different answers have been given to thequestion. To my mind the principal reason was the careless-ness often displayed in the printing and mounting of the viewsor stereographs, to say nothing of the fraud often displayedin deliberately mounting the views wrongly in order to cutprices and cheat the purchaser. Properly made there is nothingin the photographic line that gives more pleasure or satisfactionthan really good stereoscopic pictures, and if these few hintswill help some one to do really good work in that line, thewriter will be amply repaid. One reason we see so few really good views of this kind isthe fact that almost anything makes a passable stereo picture,and the novice finding this out, does not take the trouble andcare in composition and lighting that he would in ordinarywork. To use a slang expression Any old thing goes. Nowthis is not the. way to turn out good work of any kind, much 86 r. J. ANTHONY BILL. ^7 less stereoscopic work, and the writer cannot too forcibly sayto those interested in this class of work, do the best youpossibly can, study the effect of composition, light and shade,etc., and above all give long enough exposures to get detail inthe shadows. The old maxim expose for the shadows andlet the high lights take care of themselves is the golden ruleto follow, and if carried out faithfully the operator will be notonly pleased but greatly surprised at the result. Owing to lack of time the pictures accompanying this articlewere not taken expressly for it and therefore cannot be con-sidered the best, but they will give the reader a slight idea ofwhat can be done and therefore will serve the purpose. Probably the finest photographs in existence are stereoscopicpositives on glass made with an extremely fine grain collodionprocess, or a very fine grain chloride or gelatino-bromideemulsion. And here let me emphasize that a rea
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