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Identifier: americanannualof1911newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (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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RCHIDS have always had a great fascination forme, and it has been my good fortune to possesstwo friends who are enthusiastic collectors ofthese aristocrats of the floral kingdom, thus en-abling me to make numerous studies of theserare, fragile and tttled foreigners whenever the plants have been at their best. One cannot help but love these varied forms of floral aris-tocracy, and a strange fascination instinctively takes hold ofone as he is ushered into the greenhouse from the cold, invig-orating air of out-of-doors to the humid atmosphere of thetropics. For orchids not only possess gorgeous colors that arethe despair of the painter to reproduce, but the perfume ex-haled by a single cluster of blossoms is enough to scent theentire greenhouse. With the excessive humidity and the 20
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MENU CARD. WILLIAM S. RICE. strong perfume, one almost fancies he is in the midst of a trop-ical jungle. Since many of the markings and colorings of the orchid ariein yellows, purples and rose tints, it is absolutely necessary, inorder to reproduce in photography, their color values, to usecolor sensitive plates and a color screen or ray filter. For thispurpose the Isochromatic plate is best and an Ideal ColorScreen, an extra lens of a yellow color to slip over the regularlens, has been found to be very satisfactory. This yellowscreen is to correct the values of the colors which contain alarge percentage of blue or violet. The orchid is most interesting, pictorially, when photo-graphed on its native plant without cutting. This necessitatessome slight rearranging occasionally, as the stout, thick, fleshyleaves often interfere with a clear view of the flowers, byinsisting on butting in at most undesirable places. A little manipulation on the part of the photographer bymeans of wires whi

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William S. Rice  (1873–1963)  wikidata:Q8018006
 
William S. Rice
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William Rice; William Seltzer Rice
Description American artist
Date of birth/death 23 June 1873 Edit this at Wikidata 27 August 1963 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Manheim Oakland
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1911
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  • bookid:americanannualof1911newy
  • bookyear:1911
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Photography
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Tennant_and_Ward
  • bookcontributor:Harold_B__Lee_Library
  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
  • bookleafnumber:52
  • bookcollection:americana
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