Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . is afiixed to an ordinary head-rest. The diameter is 4| feet. Unbleached muslin is used,painted with a neutral tint and gradated. It isstarted on a revolution at the moment of ex-posure.—C. W. Motes. It is not my intention to rob Mr. Motes ofany laurels that may be due him, but simplyto mention that I have made a similar back-ground. My modification is as follows: Insteadof being a revolving background, it onlyworks half-way round, or less, as the case maybe, by
Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . is afiixed to an ordinary head-rest. The diameter is 4| feet. Unbleached muslin is used,painted with a neutral tint and gradated. It isstarted on a revolution at the moment of ex-posure.—C. W. Motes. It is not my intention to rob Mr. Motes ofany laurels that may be due him, but simplyto mention that I have made a similar back-ground. My modification is as follows: Insteadof being a revolving background, it onlyworks half-way round, or less, as the case maybe, by a pendulum. It is made with four arms,about four inches apart. It is graduated Avith alight color (or a darker one than the background)from the bottom to the color of the backgroundat the top. Then, by setting it in motion, youget a graduated shadow on one side of the head,and thereby save time and trouble in wool-ing the negative during printing.—W. R. HOLYOAKE. I was showing M. Salomon some examples of the work of Mr. Kurtz, and describingto him the cone background and its value in securing light and shade to relieve the. UNDER THE SKYLIGHT. 121 Almost as hard as the stars to comprehend are the reasons why photographersuse such backgrounds as they sometimes do. One general fault is the use of backgrounds of too large dimensions. Notonly this, the desire seems to prevail for ^Svide-angled backgrounds—i. e., suchas include trees and plants of the various climes of the world; architecture ofvarious periods; lakes, rivers, mountains, parks, villas, and all out doors figure. He informed me that he had been using an arrangement with a similar end, butsomewhat different in construction, and having also a somewhat more comprehensiveaim. His background forms a curve, or the arc of a large circle, the chord of which arcwould be about nine feet. Attached to this is a ridge-shape canopy of semitransparentmaterial. This canopy opens at the ridge, and is hinged to the background at
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