. Book of the Royal blue . is swing-backs to thebest advantage to reduce the perspectivedistortion so common to this class oflens, or he understandingly makes agood plate, minus the front combinationof his lens, which he does when hedesires to double the size of his picture. It is quite needless to go into specificdetails respecting the immense amountof all-around technical knowledge andnumerous little mechanical and chemi-cal dodges which the outdoor man gainsby his training in pure photography;but even he who is doing so much topush forward every new method anddevice which is practical, or i
. Book of the Royal blue . is swing-backs to thebest advantage to reduce the perspectivedistortion so common to this class oflens, or he understandingly makes agood plate, minus the front combinationof his lens, which he does when hedesires to double the size of his picture. It is quite needless to go into specificdetails respecting the immense amountof all-around technical knowledge andnumerous little mechanical and chemi-cal dodges which the outdoor man gainsby his training in pure photography;but even he who is doing so much topush forward every new method anddevice which is practical, or invents MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY. 3 others for his personal needs and the the field. The photographer carried a ultimate good of the many, is to-day a quantity of baggage and paraphernalia specialist, for he is a mere tyro in most which would horrify the modern worker: of the illustrative reproduction proces- A dark tent, albumenized glass plates, ses, such as photo-etching, photo-lithog- silvering baths, developers, A PASTORAL SCENE 1\ THK SHENANDOAH VALLEY, raphy, photo-gravure and allied gelatineprocesses, which are making our worlda veritable picture-book. Only those who have learned by ex-perience recognize the hardships, laborand skill which were requisite to make-old-fashioned wet-plates successfully in etc.; in fact, a fully equipped photo-graphic establishment for every opera-tion, from the making of the sensitiveplates to their completion as varnishednegatives, had to be performed on thespot. His cameras were heavy and cum-bersome, and comparatively bad in me- MODERX PHOTOGRAPHY chanical construction, and his lenses,when his slow plates demanded speedand covering-power, were not adequatefor his needs. But with all these vexa- tious stumbling-blocks in their paths,some few men rose to the occasion, andhave given us portrayals of scenic splen-dors which are difficult to surpass in
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