Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-02-10
Al THE PHOTOGRAPHERS.
How to Get a Little Flattery INTO You
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How to Get a Little Flattery into iouF
Picture.
The stroller along the shopping as
tricts of city cannot but be struck
with the crowd that is always to DO
seen about a photographers showcase
or windows. They are not all attracted
by the beauty of the famous actress
for. as a great many women visit the
tbeater, not so much to see the play as
to study the dresses, so large portlon
of this crowd study the constantly
changing variety of these pictured faces
to get some new idea as to how tney
shall have their pictures taken when the
craze for Immortality seizes them.
We are a very vain sex, and we do ike
to have our pictures taken to give our
friends, our sweethearts and our FAM
lies, and sometimes, when we are hF
tie depressed, to look at ourselves
we don't want them to look too much
like us; we are not so anxious 1or Inc
truth as we are for q Wholesome nat
terry, and any suggestion that Will tenu
to make us look, not as we are, but as
we would like to be, Is very welcome.
A graceful pose, a certain arrangement
of the lace about the neck, tilt OF the
head, will individualize a picture and
make 1t pleasing and satisfactory TO the
sitter.
Don't depend too much on the photo
prapher. While he knows his art ana
you do not, yet he cannot become &C
quainted with your personal character
istics at cursory glance. AS the well
dressed woman use" her modlste
knowledge to supplement her own
ideas, so a woman who wishes unique
picture will insist on the artists listen
ing to and, if possible, acting on her
suggestions.
If you have peculiar way Of holding
your head, certain lift OF the eye
brows or any little facial mannerism-
and who has not?-have 1t brought out
SO that your friends, on looking at the
photograph, will be Immediately strucA
by this.
There are certain pitfalls which
should be avoided. but they are so com
mon that it is aim ost as useless to com
bat them as it would be for me to ask
waver-colorist not to give view OF the
Grand Canal at Venice or an etcher his
favorite Windmill But the attempt
can be made, and, If you are half OF
newly married couple, don't let your
husband sit while you stand. A man
might let his wife stand after decade
of welded bliss, but surely not in the
first days Of matrimony, and conse
quently the picture looks in bad taste
Sacrifice either your husband or the
wedding fnery.
II you have q nez retrousse, don't have
your picture taken in profile because
your friend, whose face is pure Greek
made q success Of it And don't put or
your best dress-that Is, il there is any
thing fussy about it. The palmer the
dress the more satisfactory it will take
One of the prettiest photographs
ever saw was that Of q mother HOLDING
her child. The mother stood with hel
back to the possible spectators, holding
her C0llQ SO no lOOhCu bOA
The pose was graceful and natural
and the child looked like a real child
not like one Of the rigid, staring like
nesses that are usually seen.
Don't try to ''smile or look pleasant
In repose, as in sleep, your face as
sumcs it's natural expression, and l
YOU look artificial it will surely b
brought out oy the truthful sun. 1t
not necessary that your picture should
look as if you were about to laugh out
right; the pensive look suits many face
best Above all things, don't be be
puiled into having a "cheap" pictur
taken. Nothing but finely executed
work will prove satisfactory Cheal
work rapidly loses its tone" and yo'
will be sure to spend your money an.
time and be disappointed in the end
Better not sit so often, and when yo'
do get picture that can be kept an
number of years and retain Its fresh
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