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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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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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aiture, groups and such photographic work that may cometo the all-round portrait photographer, and will deal with day-light and the so-called skylight. Having had experience with top and side lights, some tops—and possibly I can say all tops—being put in at a haphazardguess, and now working with a single slant of my own design-ing I will say—and to make the saying emphatic will use aslang expression—I would not go back to a top and sideon a bet. To commence with the working of a single slantis more economical. There is only one light to curtain, andits workings is simplicity in itself. In the adjusting and re-adjusting of the curtains for the purpose of obtaining speciallight effects there is only one-half of the labor required. A single slant light should be installed so that the rays oflight will fall at a forty-five degree angle. To obtain thisdesirable angle of light rays the following rule is quite a safeone to follow, and is the one I followed in installing my light. 268
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•-> 0 ^ sto .« K 269 The light being eight feet wide, ten feet high and four feetabove the floor, I measured into the studio fourteen feet fromthe light; then at that fourteen feet point imagined a personfive feet tall. By taking five feet it equalized betvv^een a sit-ting and standing figure, then drew a forty-five degree anglefrom the top of the five-foot figure towards the light, afterwhich the light was slanted in to meet the forty-five degreeline. By that method the top of light leaned into the studiojust four feet. The glazing of the light is ribbed glass—twenty ribs to theinch. I have heard photographers condemn ribbed glass, butpersonally I prefer it. The light works softer—being freefrom the sharp wiry effects that a plain glass is apt to give.I have heard the question arise—in fact used to ask the ques-tion myself—can a group be made successfully by a singleslant, the person at the extreme distance being equally as welllighted as the person near the light? I wi

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