Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-05-29
PHOTOGRAPHS ON APPLES.
Surprising Richness of Color and
Wealth Of Detail Secured.

, Surprising Richness of Color and
Wealth Of Detail Secured.
1t is a simple matter to print photo
graphs upon the ordinary req apple,
the tomato and smooth skinned pump
kin if one goes about it in the right
way. In addition to the process being
most simple, there is no expense in
Cured, not even for so cheap a chem
ical as hypo. as no chemical or water
is required. while the resultant prints
can only be said to be as permanent
as the support on which the image is
formed. The skin of an apple. tomato
or pumpkin, particularly at a certain
stage of its ripening. bears a strong
resemblance to our Photographic plates
and printing paper for the reason that
/ it is sensitive to light. 1t is this sensi-
tiveness to light that causes the side
exposed to the sun to burn red or
yellow, and, as one can often notice,
where a leaf intervenes TO cut of the
light close to the pumpkin, apple or
tomato it will print an outline of it.
self. a silhouette. as it were. in green
upon the red or yellow ground 1t was
through noticing this that l conceived
the idea Of printing from a negative
upon the same surface. My first at |
tempt was with apples. l first hunted |
out an apple having a leaf close to its |
surface, placed a piece Of glass be-
meath the leaf and on it cut my initials
with sharp knife. l then removed
the glass and pasted the leaf firmly
to the apple so 1t would not be blown
away by the wind and left it for a
week.
At the end Of that time ! took the
apple, soaked off the leaf and found
my initials in bright red on a light
green ground having the outline of the
leaf. My success prompted me TO try
an actual photograph or one printed
from a photograph negative. To this
end l selected some apples Of the red
variety that were yet green and en-
cased them in bags made of the black
paper in which plates and paper are
usually packed. These bags were left
on for ten days to exclude the light ]
and add to the sensitiveness Of the Z
surface. At the end of this time the L
bags were removed and film negatives a
were pasted in position by using the s
white Of an egg. This white of an egg Il
found later to be the only adhesive e
that would not show in the print In L
order that all except the image when e
printed might be green the apples c
we're again inclosed in the protecting /
)ags, this time an opening little larger u
han the portrait being cut opposite the o
lin. This acted much as would a o.
'ignetting device over a printing frame Il
nd greatly enhanced the results. 9th. u
r apples We're given negatives made Il
y scratching mOnOgrams. initials and Il
ketches In spoiled films with an etch-
lg knife and attached in the same
lanner and provided with the same
for the remainder of the sur 81
ace. The richness of color and wealth IL
detail that can be secured in this d'
-ay are really astonishing. am tempt M
to say that the results are superior or
, any that could be obtained on pho -
graphic papers. A week was allowed &c
n printing. The fine deep red Of the Isl
cture upon the delicate green of the OF
'ound must be seen to be fully appre- Oh
ated. Only nature could give just ae
e exact tones Of the two colOrs that q
ould harmonic so perfectly. The M
ethod for printing on tomatoes or ms
lmpkins is the same as for apples. l WI
'pe that others viii try the expert Wa
ent, and can assure them that they ere
M be amply repaid for their trouble toE
st. Nicholas. I'll