The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-28
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Photography.
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a fair picture by actual moonlight are
infinitely smaller. But any amateur can
make moonlight" pictures OF a kind.
A nonhalatIon plate is preferable, and
an orthochromatlc one Is better. An
ordinary qulck-dry plate is good enough
TO begin with. You lre likely to pro-
duce some halo, but your first attempts
are likely TO be so nsatisfactory in 9TH
er respects that you will not mind the
dltfuslng Of the light.
Stop the lens down to 81 or 12S and
use your quickest shutter. Obviously Il
Is OF no use to attempt the making Of
moonlight picture except where you
can get reflected sunlight as from the
surface Of a lake, Of the sea, or the
snow. A snapshot Is the only time
possible.
II the sun ID unobscured by clouds do
not attempt TO produce II in the pic
ture except by doctorlng the negative or
by some trick in printing It Is better
not 70 attempt to get a moonlight"
when the sun Is unobscured for the
cloud effects are more than half the
beauty OF the picture.
The best opportunity, in fact almost
the only condition under which a fair
moonlight picture may be produced Is
when the sun Is partly obscured by
clouds, but on bright day, and ut
sunset or sunrise or shortly before or
after. This simply makes Il possible
to bring the cloud effect into the pic
ture. Under such conditions you may
sight the camera at the partly obscured
sun and It's brilliant reflection upon the
water. Be careful not to overdevelop
You want tone, not detail. That can be
effected In the printing.
One OF the chief faults of the amateur
portraItist Is that he has not enough
confidence in himself to attempt any
thing in the retouching line This Is
probably due to an idea that to do this
at all well one must be exceedingly eX-
pert In this line. 1t Is, on the other
hand, not difficult. and. with little
amount OF practice, can easily be picked
UP.
In portraits where freckles or wrlnk-
les stand out In alarming prominence
touch up the film side Of the negative
with little retouchinB medium In the
spots where the Tetouching process
seems necessary. such as on the face.
But first place the negative on some
support so that the light can shine
through the negative. Then touch the
transparent spots lightly with lead
pencil, having long point as fine as
pen. Touch very lightly, and allow sew
eral touches to each freckle. With
few trials one can gain good degree OF
confidence and before long become quite
an expert in this class Of handling neg
atIves.
Those who focus with a distance scale
will be interested In remarkably por-
table device OF NJ. Gaument, described
In the Bulletin de la socIete Fran
chise de Photographic" by which dis
thnces may be almost instantly estl-
mated either by taking the height OF
the average man us a standard, Or-if
greater accuracy be requlred-by OBJ
servations upon n gauge strip which
rolls up like map. In small metal
plate Is set Stanhope lens on the fiat
face OF which Is q mlcFophotegTaph OF
a standing man with scale superpoS-
ed. the divisions and figures Of the scale
being such as to show the distance in
meters Of an average man whose APP
parent height is from the feet Of the
photograph TO any given line.
To assist in comparing the scale and
the figure on which the observation Is
taken, a window Is provided Immedl
ately under the lens. and across this
window Is set prism producing a
small deviation. A movable reglsts=
dot or patch Is provided in conjunction
with the microphotograph and Its scale
In the case OF very near objects when
greater accuracy is necessary the gauge
strip is used. this being suspended at
the distance OF the object to be photo
graphed. Vision Is then through the
deviatlng prism, and through an aper
ture in the window, so that two Images
OF the scale are seen. The scale and
mr. 0Af k1,nN hn
ical value Of the deviation as read by
comparing the two Images gives the
| distance without calculation.
The value of stops or dIaphragms Is
an important question for amateur
photographers. and but little Is really
known Of their proper use. One knows
In u general way the use Of n small
stop sharpens the image and iengthens
the exposure and the large stop short
ems the exposure. Here is the matter
in nutshell. Grasp these two facts.
| First Tue volume OF light that passes
| through h diaphragm Is propbrtionate
to the area OF the opening. Second,
the areas OF circles are proportlonate
to the square Of thels dIameters. The
| frs. maxim mas be illustrated very
simply. II the area Of the largest stop
| In lens be two square Inches, It will
| permit the passage Of twice the amount
|. OF light OF diaphragm whose area is
| only one square inch. Therefore to get
the same result the exposure with the
| smaller stop would require to be double
Of that with the larger. The second
maxim may be illustrated thus: Sup
pose the largest stop OF lens to have
a diameter Of two inches and another
stop in the snme lens to have diam
eter OF one inch, In other words, one
Is half the diameter OF the other, and
the first thought would be that the
smaller would require double the ex-
posture Of the larger stop. But maxim
one says the volume Of light that pasSeH
depends upon the area OF the stop. and
not Its diameter So We apply maxim
two, which says that the areas OF cir
cles are proportlonatc to the square Of
the dlameters,
The circles under confederation are In
diameter two inches and one inch.
| These numbers squared give n ratio OF
four to one. So that the area Of the
larger circle is four times that OF the
smaller, and therefore passes four
times more light. The use OF the small
stop viii be determined by the distance
from the object, the light required, etc,
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Journal dispatch from Aberdeen, s. D.,
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him with having eulogized Agulnnldo rs
a patriot and hero. He never once re-
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