San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-06
POOLING THE CAMERA.
Painted Faces May Deceive the Lenses
of the Photographers.

Painted Faces May Deceive the Lenses
of the Photographers.
Some of our girls are learning how to be
photographed beautifully and trickily
Have you observed and wondered, said one
of the most celebrated of the camera men,
how well the actresses manage to look
when the eye of the camera is focused upon
them? Well, ! can tell you how to do as
well as they do. First, choose an artistic
photographer. No matter how much you
know about what you want aud what to
wear, there are matters of view, and light
and shade, for which you must depend abb
solutely upon him.
But he will not be able to advise you
how to make up your face, and will prob
ably object sweepingly to any such device
That is where he is mistaken. If he were
wise he would know how to pose girl,
and then with bit of white and bit of
black chalk make her lovely for that view.
Several of the New York photographers do
this now. The stock pose, into which
photographers, on general principles, put
victims over whom they don't intend to
bother, is three-quarters, which is an abom-
ination to most faces
There is small chance for expression: the
eye gets no show at all, and the contour of
the cheek, which is seldom beautiful, ex-
cept in children, is betrayed. You will
find they have q rooted objection to full
face positions. | have never been able to
discover why. There is tendency to raise
one eyebrow higher than the other, or look
cross eyed: but it is their business to look
out for that and stop you if your features
begin to wander around your face.
Now, i'll painting face for photography
the eyes can safely be madeup great deal.
Put black under the eye, only don't let it
be just one heavy black line. Shadow it
out softly. Blacken the lashes as much as
they will stand, only don't let them be
lumpy. Increase the apparent length and
sweep of the upper lid, by which the size
of the eye is judged, with line continuing
the line of the lashes and a parallel one
continuing the line of the crease that shows
just above when the eye is open. Draw
these only as long as can be done without
their showing as lines. ...
An actress obtained clever picture, in
which the effect of very long lashes is given
by lines, presumably shadows thrown by
said lashes, painted above the eye, just I'M
der the eyebrows. Use red very carefully.
1OuE lips pIODdDly HeSu pdluliuS luto an
improvement upon their own shape Do
it softly and with very faint red. Red
takes black. Look carefully and you will
trace hard line about the lips of many
actresses photographs. Sometimes you
don't need to look carefully If you want
dimple to show specially you can height
en- its light and shade o little, but unless
your photographer poses you so that the
device does not betray itself the effect will
be failure.
Having thus accumulated your face don't
disturb its arrangement by smile or
smirk or any other grimace of expression
when the lens is opened on you. Other
wise art and nature will make a hopeless
mess of your features. But if you have
planned an expression in harmony with
the make up, save it till the last moment.
The operator is bound to grip the back of
your neck with his monkey wrench, and if
you hang on to your joyful smile all
through that ordeal you will get some
thing demoniac and wild to send to your
friends. York Sun.