Photography at Home; A Handbook to the Use of the Camera in the Home for Pleasure and Profit with Working Methods and Reliable Formulae (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...light in the production of Christmas or other cards may be mentioned. Flashlight silhouettes come lyider this heading and are made made as follows: Across an open doorway, or at the opening between two connecting rooms, stretch a white sheet without creases or folds. In one room (behind the sheet, and at a distance of six or eight feet from it) arrange everything for a flash exposure. A single flash-sheet, or small cartridge, or ten grains of powder will suffice. In the other room pose the subject or subjects as near to the sheet as possible, and give them occupation. Thus two ladies may be sitting, busied with their embroidery, or a girl may be posed, standing, with her violin in characteristic attitude, or a baby may be seated at table in a high chair. In this same room focus the camera on the subject, lower the gas a little, uncover the lens and plate, and quickly go into the other room (behind the sheet) and make the flash. The result, on development, will be an attractive silhouette which, printed on Vehx, Cyko, Argo, or any other paper, will form a very desirable greeting card for a friend of the subject. The theme of the silhouette picture may be varied infinitely according to personal taste. Two men playing chess, a child with toys, or a woman trimming a hat are subjects which suggest themselves. In a similar way silhouettes may be made of the Christmas tree, or of decorative forms made by arranging branches, twigs, or flower-sprays upon the screen formed by the sheet. Firelight effects have of late become very popular. They are produced in a simple manner. The subject having been posed and focused, a long and steady flash without smoke must be given. Proceed by taking flash paper (the Eastman flash sheets answer the purpose) in half-inch...