The Sauk Centre herald., 1914-01-08
FREAKIsH PHOTOS
Moonlight Effects Obtained by
Taking the Sun.

NOVss"yit CHcCtS UUIaineQ Uy
Taking the Sun.
TRICK OF THE GHOST FAKE.
~6pookh aad Vision" Pictures Only
Require Little Care and Simple
Apparatus, and II is Easy to Photo
graph . Man inside Pint Bottle.
Moonlight effects In photography are
ssneraIIy gained by trickery. OF
course It h possible to take photo
graphs BY moonlight. the exposure va
Fytng from thirty minutes to two
hours. The results. however, are rare.
IL satisfactory. owing to the move
nant Of the shadows producing Q
blurred effect In tho finished print. To
setaiR a moonlight picture Of the ap-
proved sort--a fine cloud effect with
the moon casting q long line OF bril-
hent light upon water-speeiai prepara.
lions must be made.
A rather cloudy sunset must bs
chosen. Then when the sun drops low
On the horizon and 10 partly obscured
Dortunity to secure snapshot (the
lens being well .'stopped down, right
into the eye Of the light. The plate
thus obtained should be slightly un-
derdevelOped. IL all has gone well the
resulting negative will supply picture
exactly resembling q moonlight effect.
and by carefully cumming a small cir
ole Of Opaque paper upon the film one
is able to print out the ''moon" into
the bargain.
Photographs in which the snow ap-
pears to be falling are usually prOduc-
ed by artificial means. If the subject
rs to be portrait the sitter should be
sarbed appropriately and placed be-
fore a wintry background. When the
negative is obtained 1t should be dried
and well vanished. then placed fat
upon table with the film side upper
most. Take a soft toothbrush charged
with rather thick india ink and car
mine mixed up with water and draw
1t over the teeth Of the comb. which
should be held some little distance
from the negative. II this operation
is carefully managed the result will be
an irregular spattering of the pigment
upon the vanished film. and when this
Ia dry q print will be produced which
looks just as though the negative had
been taken in snowstOrm.
Photographs Of the class In which
ghosts or visions appear may be "fak-
sd in several ways. The first Of these
posure method Suppose. for example.
we wish to photograph a man inside
bottle which will hold no more than a
pint Of liquid. To accomplish this ap-
parently impossible feat proceed as
follows: First photograph the bottle
standing upon dull black support and
with similar background. While To-
cusing take care to mark out what will
be the bottles boundaries on the plate
by fixing little pieces OF gummed paper
to the ground glass screen Of the cam
era. Then get your man to stand or
sit In a chair upon black cloth with
q smooth black curtain behind him.
Focus upon him 80 that he falls within
the boundaries Of the bottle, this be-
ing easily managed BY means Of the
Summed paper guides. Finally expose
the plate which has already been used
to photograph the bottle. and when
this is developed your friend will duly
sppear--inside.
This method will be found In prac-
dee to explain many pictures which at
FIRST seem very astonishing. To make
q -s'vision fake" arrange little scene.
such as a bare room with an empty
hearth, with your model sitting list
lessly In the foreground. Make your
first exposure on this scene. being care
full to mark out on the ground glass
screen the space into which the vision
must fall. A dark curtain or dark
woodwork should occupy this space
In the first picture. Now procure q
sheet of dead black paper. mount 1t
evenly upon stiff card and with little
Chinese white sketch out an appropri
ate.-vision.
II you cannot uO tnlS yOurSeiI get
an artist friend to help you. but see
that the sketch Is placed I'm the correct
spot e.. the spot which you have
arranged for 1T to occupy in the finish
ed picture. When the sketch is finish
Cd set it up before the camera. focus
and see that 1t falls within the requir-
I'd boundary upon the screen. Then
expose again the plate which has al
ready done duty and-if no miscalcula-
lions have been made-an interesting
vision" picture will result.
The ghost fake" may be made in
exactly the same way. only In this
case an appropriate scene would be
deserted churchyard. with your model
posing In an awestrnck attitude be-
side a tomb. In all photographs Of
this kind the reader should bear in
mind thai a dead black background
does not appreciably affect the sensis
tized plate. but "a show plate should be
used whenever this is possible. as by
this means any slight tendency to
"fog" will be obviated = Scientific
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