Evening star., 1934-04-21
PHOTOCRAPHH|NTS
ON HOME CONTEST
improvements Must Be Pic
tured-SimpIe Rules for
Interiors.

Since the judging in The Stars
Better Homes Contest will be done
partly by photographs, entrants in
the contest are discovering that the
making of interior pictures is quite
simple with the use of up-to-date
equipment.
Some persons hesitate to make in
door photographs because they imagine
that unusual skill is required. The
following information on photograph
ing room interiors show how easy it is ::
l. Set the camera on a table, a tri-
pod or any other firm support in posi-
ton to take in the desired part of the
room. Have the camera at height
so that very little of the ceiling shows
in the finder.
2. Avoid having any large piece of
furniture in the immediate foreground.
A slight Encouragement of furnishings
may be advantageous.
Careful of Windows.
3. When it is possible photograph
across the light coming from windows
rather than pointing the camera di-
rectly toward windows.
4 Where windows must be included
in the view, the shades of those win
dows within range of the lens can be
drawn all the way down for part of
the exposure time. If. however. film
of the verichrome type is used, that
precaution is less necessary, since such
film will go far toward preserving de-
! tail out of the comparative glare in the
windows
5. Before making the exposure view
the setting from directly in front of
! the camera lens and look for reflec-
tons in pictures or mirrors. Trouble
some reflections can be overcome by
placing wad of paper in back of the
frame to change its angle.
Set Stop Opening.
6. A large stop" opening in the
lens will not register nearby and dis
tant objects together in sharp defini-
ton. 1t is necessary for pictures of
rooms to use fairly small stop open
ing and to set the focus pointer for an
intermediate distance in order to re-
cord objects at different distances with
good definition. For example: If the
I distance from the lens to the nearest
object is eight feet and the distance
from the farthest object of importance
to the lens is 20 feet, it would be we'll
to set the focus pointer for, say, 10
or Is feet.
z. Time exposures are necessary, and
this table tells the time:
White walls and more than one WIN
downright sun outside, seconds;
haZy sun, 10 seconds; cloudy bright,
20 seconds; cloudy dull. 40 seconds
White walls and only one window
Bright sun outside, seconds; hazy
sun, is seconds; cloudy bright, 80 sec
onds; cloudy dull, minute.
Medium colored walls and hangings
and more than one window-Bright
sun outside, seconds: hazy sun, 20
seconds; cloudy bright, 40 seconds;
cloudy dull, minute 20 seconds.
Medium colored walls and hangings
and only one window-Bright sun out
side, II seconds; hazy sun, 80 seconds;
cloudy bright, l minute; cloudy dull,
minutes.
| Dark Wall Combination.
Dark colored walls and hangings and
more than one window-Bright sun
outside, 20 seconds; hazy sun. 40 Sec
onds; cloudy bright. l minute 20 sec
onds; cloudy dull, minutes 40 sec
onds.
Dark colored walls and hangings
and only one window-Bright sun out
side. 40 seconds: hazy sun, l minute
20 seconds; cloudy bright, 2 minutes 40
seconds; cloudy dull, 5 minutes 20 sec
onds.
The exposures suggested in this table
are calculated for rooms where win
dows receive unobstructed light from
the sky and for exposures made not
earlier than three hours after sunrise
and not later than three hours before
sunset. When the next smaller stop
opening than the one mentioned, on
either single or double lens camera, is
used, give twice the exposure called for
in the table.