Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-23
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paper, mount III evenly upon Sliil Cdiu'
and with little Chinese white sketch
out an appropriate vision. If you can
not DO this yourself. get an artist
friend to help you: but see that the
sketch is placed in the correct spot,
l. e., the spot which you have arranged
for it 70 occupy in the finished pic
ture. When the sketch is finished, set
il up before the camera focus ana see
that 1t falls within the required bound
ary upon the screen. Then expose
again the plate which has already
do,e duty, and-if no miscalcniatlons
have been made-an interesting VI
sion picture will result.
The ghost fake" may be mace III
exactly the same way. only IN TINS
case an appropriate scene wouio De q
deserted churchyard, with your fnoaei
,oo;,e in an awestruck attitude De
side a tomb, In all photographs OF
tbs kind the reader should bear III
,,,n3 that a dead black background
does not appreciably affect the sehsl-
,;,ed Mate. but slow plate shohio De
ns.d whenever this is possible, as by
this means any slight tendency To
..feg" will be obviated.
n, the whole, however, ghosts an"
vision photographs are best anu iiioas
realistic when made IN the loiio"
way. Get your model TO SIT vi 9'"'''
in a particular place for about SEE
ond while YOU are exposing 'i.eh ~
th,. lens. and let the model walk away
from before the camera. NOW eApos0
oyai, for two or three Seeonds more
and on developing the negative 'heie
will appear a faint image OF the iiiooei
nth the objects behind seen through
his or her body.
IF Won drape a white sheet over your
models head and shoulders the eheel
will he all the more ghostlike; whie you
may make your ghost appear to be aa-
dressing a warning to some one sittihs
ar a table. or otherwise engaged Whiie
dealing with this subject it may pc use
fn, to add that little sulphate of~auih-
inc. saw about a quarter of an ounce
dissolved in a pint of water, II when a
little sulphuric acid has been added, pro-
xides a paint which. while invisible to
the eve. affects a Photographic plate.
Thus any figure or words may be
nainted upon a dark background ana al
lowed to dry. The marks Will De III
visible. but they will appear quite dis
tinct on a negative and be source oi
no small wonder to those who are not
in the secret
Such photographs as seem to snow
lady face to face with herself, or paying
a game of cards with herself. are very
astonishing at first glance. Yet they are
very easy to produce. Just inside the
camera, or close as possible to the
grooves into which the dark slide is
placed. should be fitted a thin metal
plate. duly blackened to prevent haia-
ton. This metal plate should exactiy
cover one-half of the plate when the lat
ter is exposed
The model must now be posed well to
one side of the picture. so that her poay
is seen on one-half of the focusing
screen which is uncovered by the metal
plate. After focusing the plate hoioer
should be inserted and the exposure
made in the ordinary way. Then, after
removing the dark slide, the metal plate
should be moved so that it covers the
other half of the plate. and the sitter
also move over TO the other side of the
picture.
A little thought and ingenuity will en-
able the photographer to pose his model
ana stage Ills plStutC VhtSei'S'''
developing such negative the same per-
son will be shown in two positions; andif
the metal plate has been carefully made
and blackened there will be absolutely
no trace of a joint. BY having several
metal plates instead of one, and moving
them about as required, the model may
be made to appear three or four times
upon the same negative.
Another way of obtaining this par
ticular kind of freak photograph Is to
fit a tube in front of the lens. Instead
of using cap, the tube should be closed
with a kind of folding door arrangement,
so that one-half of the lens may be I'M
covered at time. A still more simple
plan Is to use cap which covers only
one-half the aperture, and to control the
exposure by means of shutter behind
the lens. This method, however, makes
it necessary to stop down" the lens to
at least f-3, and long exposure is thus
rendered inevitable.
1t is we'll known that the nearer an
object is to the camera the larger 1t APP
pears to be in proportion to other OBJ
jects in the picture: and by taking ad-
vantage of this fact some astonishing
pictures may. be obtained, particularly if
lens of somewhat short focus be en-
ployed. Not long ago the writer saw re-
produced in popular magazine pho
tograph which was described in all seri-
BUSINESS as depicting a cabbage of gil
ganitic proportions.
Doubtless most people who looked at
the picture were deceived, for the cab
bage partially obscured whole family