The New Photo-Miniature (Volume 5); Formerly the Photo-Miniature (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. 1903. Excerpt: ..., . k all they might be. We did not stay to doctor them at the time, as we had to make more negatives and prints. Let us pick out those which seem to have most of promise in them and see what we can do with two or three of them. Salon pictures, you know, are seldom made from negatives just as they come from the drying rack. In fact, it is often said that the negatives from which some of the Secessionists make their exhibition pictures would give the professional commercial photographer the delirium tremens, or something equally disagreeable. They say that where they are not locally reduced they are locally intensified, so the rest of us certainly need not hesitate to doctor ours a little. THE PHOTO-MINIATURE No. 15: Intensification and Reduction will tell us exactly how to do it. No. 32: Defects in Negatives may also) help us toward better results. Maybe some of the negatives would be better if enlarged, the tendency of our exhibitions nowadays being toward larger frames than formerly. In this event, No. 35: Enlarging Negatives will be a great help. A platinotype or carbon print from an enlarged negative, by the way, will be far more satisfying than a bromide enlargement, no matter how good the latter may be; but if an enlargement on bromide paper is preferred, that branch of work will be found covered in No. 16 of this series. And speaking of carbon reminds us that winter is preeminently the season for the carbon worker. In summer we have the greatest amount of trouble drying and keeping our tissue; the sensitizing solution insists on getting too warm; in fact, summer is generally regarded as a bad season for carbon work, except by the professional who manages to have everything to suit conditions. By using a stronger sensitizer than that recommended for s..