Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-11
POSING BY THE RULES
WHAT NEW Works. PHoToGRA-
Pliers SAY ABOUT SUBJECTS. /.

VIA NEW WORKS. PHOTOGRA-
Pliers SAY ABOUT SUBJECTS.
Suggestions That Should he, Valuable to
One Who Is About to Have a Picture
Taken-Points on u Subject That In
terests and Exasperates Many.
If you are determined to pose in a photo.
graph gallery, pose in fashion.
What is the fashion? Well. as a rule, it
is whatever the photographer, tells you.
Don't &C to the gallery arrayed in an ex-
panse of shirt front with the blacklist of
broadcloth backgrounds. Don't tell the
photographer chat you al Il side view
when a study of your facial peculiarities
or inaccuracies, if you will, should con.
vince you that the result of the cameras
sly work will be a caricature.
There are a few rules that every one
can follow. says Sarony's artist, al
though every man needs to nave his phys.
iognomy made a study of. The one rule
that has become an axiom in our business
is told in two w~ords-.avoid contrasts.'
There is nothing that discourayes HI artist
SO much as the full length dress suit pic.
ture, with the low cut vest and the ocean
of shirt bosom. The artist must adjust
his camera and his lights for the black
and then for the white. Even white neck.
ties come under the general title Of the
| operators bette noire.'"
The question of the necktie is one which is
easily adjusted if you only obey this Sarony
pointer. If your suit is gray or light color,
ed, wear a light colored necktie, something
that matches. Strain after uniformity in
color above all things. A startling yellow
or red necktie with Il black suit is rs in.
appropriate as a black necktie with a light
suit.
When you decide to have your picture
taken study not alone you face, but your
physique. II you are %corpulent don't have
a half length taken, or, if you will go into
q group, have the picture taken full" or
front" That will eliminate the embon-
point, at least in the picture. and you will
be satisfied with the result of the camera.
Don't wear GLASSES. Some men nave an
idea that the CLASHES rim furnished :hem
by the photographer will make their eyes
look unnatural This is not so. The glass
simply reflects the light and takes all ex-
preston out of the counterfeit present
ment.
o EYES.
Above all things take a good look at
your eyes in a clear mirror before you go
to the photographer. Then when you have
discovered one Of three things follow this
advice, FOR it comes from George T. Bias
sett, Dana's operator. Your eyes may be
deep set, they may be without popularity
or they may bulge. In the first instance
insist on sitting we'll back from the camera,
with Il strongly modified light. A poor
operator can easily spoil your picture by
giving it Il lusterless eye, and particularly
is this the case if he fails to appreciate the
necessity of modifying his light for your
deep set eyes n beautifully arched eye.
brows.
above all, | don't think you know all
about your nose, for you don't" This was
the emphatic advice given by Napoleon
Sarony. Don't think you know the way
your nose looks best. A lady who has
studied her face a thousand times in her
boudolr mirror may think she does, but she
is mistaken. Now, understand, ! don't say
she is mistaken about how it looks to her
In the glass, or i'll what way she had best
turn her pretty head. | simply mean that
when she takes her position before the
camera another attitude must be studied.
1t is the same with men, and men of fashion
know this, and that is why they are easier
to pose than the uninitiated, and | can ex
plain better what | mean by relating my
experience with Mr.. Burdett- Coutts, hus.
band of the famous baroness. He might
be called Il man of fashion, | dare say. He
came to me not long ago and turned his
face rs he thought best.
Turn your face the other side." I said.
"Why?" he asked.
"You have had an accident befall your
nose. haven't your"
"ies. | fell from a horse and broke one
side of my nose years ago." he answered in
surprise. but" he added, IA bit nettled,
1T doesn't show
Yes. but it does. and that is why |
turned your face around"
PHOTuGRAPHING THE NOSE.
But that will get the worst side in full
view" he criticised.
1.-THE mistake he made" continued the
photographer, leaving the dialogue. "is the
mistake common not only to nine out OF
every ten poSers, but to many, a great
many photographers. 1t is the mistake, |
may say; of playing the best side of your
face on the camera. But you can't fool the
camera Follow the rule that Mr.. Burdett-
Coutts found it so hard to see the value of.
If the worst side of your nose is the left.
Eturn thite toward the camera; then the
picture will take the line of the good side
of the nose. If there is a depression on the
left side, for instance, and the right side is
turned toward the camera, the line of the
picture will be the irregular lineo the far
or left side of the nose 1t seems Il little
odd that the worst side of the face should
yield the best results, but hat is Il para.
dox we work Oh. g. .
Remember. again, that when you think
you have determined the best pose 20,
yourself, man Of fashion though you be.
you may not have taken account of a de,
feet in your nose unknown to yourself.
Perchance your other photographer has
been always taking the other side Of your
nose. ~
Remember that the nose has two differ
ent sides. 81.
II don't presume there is any face that
to an expert artist eye has a nose without
this. The pressure Of a baby's forefinger
when he is chewing his little thumb may
be enough to start this tendency. If not,
the accidents of later years in football,
baseball, wrestling and general athletics
will effect the difference.
Each face is but oneof Il type. Think OF
some prominent nan whom you resemble
and then buy his picture. and when You %