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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e ex-planation is the high scale of tones that are permitted to enterinto the picture. Put your child in the whitest rompers, or dress, in its ward-robe ; not freshly starched clothes, for those will have uglyangular lines and shadows, but in something soft and pliable.Have plenty of hangings and other furnishings about of asimilar tone that will reflect the light, and give all the lightfrom the windows that is possible at every angle. Take carethat there are no deep shadows, even on the white goods;either smooth out the folds that appear, or throw light intothem from reflecting surfaces. Keep direct beams of sun offthe little figure, except for special effects, diffusing the rays ifnecessary through thin white or pale yellow cloth. A littleexperiment will show that, under these conditions and withfull light through ordinary windows, snapshots will not beimpossible. Sometimes a tenth of a second will be necessaryto give full enough time; often a twenty-fifth will be none toobrief. 268
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CLAUDE H. SIMSON. 269 One position of the camera, squarely in the window, isoften of value, helping to make the exposure short, if thesubject is not too far away, and furnishing a broad lightingeffect. The window shade, if it is of light material, may beheld out in the room above the babys head as a reflector.Remember that the intensity of the light varies as the squareof the distance from its source and keep the baby as close,therefore, to the window as possible. Sometimes an interest-ing effect may be achieved indoors by putting the subjectsquarely in the path of a beam of light as it falls through thewiftdow, when the exposure will be but slightly longer than ifthe baby were intercepting the same rays outdoors. Backgrounds and surroundings indoors must, as a rule,receive even greater attention than those outside, becausetheir artificiality comports but poorly with the naivete of thesubject. The rapidly dwindling light as the back walls of anordinary room are approached will often a

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