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Title: Complete self-instructing library of practical photography
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Schriever, J. B. (James Boniface), b. 1868, ed American School of Art and Photography (Scranton, Pa.)
Subjects: Photography
Publisher: Scranton, Pa., American School of Art and Photography
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ture as thehorizon of the landscape. In this way only will you be ableto secure perfect perspective of the sky. It is also very im-portant to use a lens of the same focal length as the one em-ployed in making the landscape negative. 417. Full instruction regarding combination printingand printing-in clouds is given in Volume IV. 418. Practice Work.—After having become fairly fa-miliar with the various types and forms of clouds, make anexposure or two of the best subjects at your command. Itmay be necessary to watch carefully for a number of daysbefore you are able to obtain any great variety of nega-tives. In developing sky negatives do not carry them asfar as ordinary negatives; they must be crisp and snappy,but not dense. 419. Make good proof prints from each experiment,and place your notations, which will give you full informa-tion regarding the manner in which you proceed to securethe results, on the back, and file them in your proof file forfuture guidance. r 7f *?W^ J«f * ..^
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IpijBLlC CHAPTER XIV. SNOW AND FROST PHOTOGRAPHY. 420. Every season of the year has its own special fea-tures that invite the camerist to work with his instrument.But the winter season is specially inviting because of thesubtle charm of the winter landscape. Nobody who has notseen the hills in winter knows their real beauty and im-pressiveness. There is a charm and grandeur about them,when draped with snow, that must be seen to be appreciated.The valleys, too, have a weird attractiveness when buriedbeneath the snow drifts. The rocks and cliffs stand outboldly against the white background of the fields, whilethe mountain streams show an inky black flowing betweenthe banks of snow. 421. The absence of color, perhaps, makes it possibleto reproduce these winter landscapes more correctly withthe camera than by any other method. But the great dif-ficulty which arises is, how best to shun too great extremesof black and white in the picture. There should be grada-tions of tone. The blackness

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