The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-06-09
THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
How Fra uds Are Detected and Also AideG
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The writer has often heen asked
whether photography can lie. The
fact that it now plays an important
part in life renders the question rather
| a serious one, and one that l am cer-
| tain many would like to have answered.
| Well, then, photography can lie and lie
| bad enough to bring blush to the
| cheek of the worthiest disciple of
| Ananias
The wonderful strides made by
| photography during the past few years
| have not only enabled men to achieve
| great things by its aid, but it has also,
unfortunately, assisted others to de-
ccive and defraud their fellow-crea-
| lures.
Photography assists the forger in so
closely initiating bank notes as to de-
ceive the most experienced; but it also
assists the scientists to detect these for
| geries, and, in some cases, has aided
| Justice to discover the offender.
An amusing case appeared some time
| ago in one of the law courts. 1t was
a dispute between tHo persons about
wall. The plaintiff complained that
the defendants wall obstructed the
light, to which he had right Defend
ant denied the charge.
The most amusing part of the case,
however was when the complainant
handed the judge some photographs OF
the obstructing wall, and the judge OBJ
served that it was evident from them
that the wall certainly did obstruct the
light and was apparently of unneces-
sary weight and size.
Then up rose the counsel for the de-
fendant, and, with smile, handed to
the learned judge his photographs of
the same wall The learned judge was
perplexed, and we'll he might be. In
the first set of photographs the wall
was of immense size, towering above
all the windows; in the second. how
ever, it was of liliputian dimensions-a
most insignificant thing, unworthy of
any dispute. a
Now, these different effects can all be
brought about by using lenses of diff
ferent angles-that is to say, lenses
which collect and throw a more or less
amount of view on plate of given
dimensions.
wide angle lens is one that includes
lot of views in a picture, and as the
angle is long way different to that of
the human eye, the picture in no way
gives a correct representation of the
scene.
Readers should beware of house
agents photographs of the houses and
property they have for disposal. They
are nearly all taken with wide angle
lens. With such an instrument it is
possible to make a small London back
garden resemble a large, open park.
The reason is that it causes all objects
near at hand to appear very large, and
those little distance away to recede
far away in the background.
The writer had in his possession a
photograph of man playing chess
with himself and looking on at the
game There were, of course, three
figures in the picture, but all of the
same person in different positions.
The writer used to do something sim
liar to this when making long pano
ramic views. A little slit runs along
the sensitive plate and makes the ex
posure. and it is quite possible to in
clude the same person in the picture il
a dozen different places and in di tferen
attitudes
! BY photographing three pers ons ar
J ranged between two mirrors placed il
J a position thus V, a photograph will b'
produced Of thousands and thousands O
persons crowded close together.
J Spirit photography is another form o.
deception. Photographs are made of q
sitter with figure leaning over him
The figure retires when the exposure
is half over and thus has misty, weird
appearance in the picture.
By composite photography almost
| anything can be done. This is accom-
plished by cutting out different parts o
J several photographs, arranging then
, together, and rephotographing them.
The society lady when she goes to
! her photographer would be Mortified i
: she were to see her photograph as it ii
first produced by photography. Th'
negative is, however, placed in th'
, hands of the retouching artist, who's
4 duty it is to take out all wrinkles, spot
and blotches in the face, make th
3 mouth little smaller, the eyes brighter
, and perhaps the eyebrows a bit darke
and the nose bit shorter Larg
Jumps are then carved out of the wais
: and the figure otherwise improved.
When the finished portrait is hande
P over to her ladyship she is charmet
!. with it. Perhaps the appearance is nc
Y exactly the same as that shown by he
! looking-glass, but she consoles hersel
with the reflection that photograph
4 cannot lie-oh, dear, no; impossible
London It'd Bits.
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