Identifier: americanannualof1912newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (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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dry; alsobefore print is put to dry pick off with a needle such foreignsubstances as you can. Another way is to swab surface with wet cotton or spongejust before flowing. If there are only small spaces of sky, use smaller brush,with only enough paint to cover each space. If you want effect of broken clouds, let print be drier beforeputting in sky. If sky is unsatisfactory when dry, you can wash it offand try again. When print is dry and pinned on cardboard, take scraperand with gentle motion remove specks. On those that willnot come away, place with a No. i brush enough Chinesewhite to eliminate without making a white speck, which inturn would necessitate a touch of blue. If the blue has run over into places where it does notbelong, it can be removed by washing down with a smallbrush wet with clean water and moisture taken away bypressing blotter against spot washed. If there were no clouds in negative, very fair ones can bemade by a gentle semi-circular motion with a tuft of damp 156
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A BUTTERFLY. Kate Smith. cotton. Another way is to work extra blue into sky after itdries. If there are a few clouds in sky, flow it; dry and thenremove blue from them with wet brush and blotter. If sky isfull of clouds do not flow, but work blue between them whileprint is damp. If there is solution left in cup save it for next time. If itdries up, add water and dissolve thoroughly before using.Keep it covered to keep out dust. For convenience we can divide out-of-door pictures intotwo classes, which we may call maps and artistic bits. The map is the open landscape, in which distance graduallysoftens away. This is perspective, and is taken care of bythe good photographer, but the colorist has to use correctpigments, else it is destroyed. It is retained by putting thebrightest colors into the foreground and darkening to thedistance by even degrees. This can be done by adding in-creasing quantities of blue and violet, preferably the latter,and decreasing the thickness of the color appli

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