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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mentscaught and reflected every particle of light. It is said suchphotographs had exposures of close to a second. Those photo-graphs were an achievement and were produced with themost rapid plates and lenses. Such photographs as the novicemay attempt might need exposures ranging anywhere from3 to 30 minutes, but should be of scenes where the absence oflife and moving objects would not be a serious objection.Sometimes the help of a few assistants who are willing tostand quietly for a few moments will greatly improve a scene. The accompanying photographs were taken on low-pricedplates of an ordinary speed and with cheap lenses, and arepresented only with the purpose of showing what an amateur,with a little patience and perseverance, can do with an or-dinary outfit. But after all, who among us can now tell how far distantthe time may be when we can sally forth with our camera andtake the fantastic scenes that we all are familiar v\ith aboutthe streets of our larger cities after dark? 148
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PORTRAIT. Miss Reineke.

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