Identifier: americanannualof1918newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1918 (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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Figure 1. metal washer prevents the thumb-screw from slipping throughthe slot. After this cross-piece has been placed at a distanceof twice the focal length of the lens from the sheet of plateglass, its position need be changed but rarely. While thisapparatus will give excellent results, buy a laboratory stand 194
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Figure 3. as soon as you can afford it. Dont consider going withoutthe best apparatus a virtue; it is not, it is merely a privation.The beginner is now ready to attempt his first picture. Awriter in Outing some years ago in an article on flower photog-raphy declared that from fifty to five hundred plates might bedestroyed before a printable negative was obtained. Refer-ence is made to a photographer who later became an expert—who made and destroyed a thousand negatives of flowersbefore he obtained one that pleased him. Flower photographyis difficult enough, but it is hardly as bad as that, although 195 many disappointments must be expected and much patience isrequired. It seems desirable to insert here a few words in regardto collecting and preparing flowers for the camera. If fragilewild flowers are to be used, which must be brought from thefields and woodlands, they should be placed as soon as gatheredin a botany can—an oblong tin box which can be procuredfrom any dealer in natu

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