Image: The American annual of photography (1917) (14784108395)

Description: Washington Monument from Memorial Continental Hall. Identifier: americanannualof1917newy (find matches) Title: The American annual of photography Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: Photography Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: look it over, see how itworks. The more often he sees and handles it, the less atten-tion will he pay to it. Moreover, babies cannot be kept wait-ing. Arrangements to take the picture must be completedbefore one goes about taking it. Babies and young childrenare constantly moving; there is no static condition with themexcept while they are asleep—when, by the way, some of themost attractive pictures of them may be taken. The photog-rapher faces, therefore, the alternative of snapping them whilethey are in motion or attempting to catch them during amomentary pause. Between the resulting possibilities of movement in the pic-ture and under-exposure there can be, however, no choice.The former is to be risked every time, for if there is one kindof photographing on earth that will not give good resultsthrough under-exposure it is that of the little child. Theglaring whites of the dresses, the chalky tones in the flesh andthe frequent entire loss of the one side of the face that was in 264 Text Appearing After Image: WASHINGTON MONUMENTFROM THE D. A. R. HALL,WASHINGTON, D. C. CARL H. KATTELMANN. 265 shadow contribute to most of the failures in infant photog-raphy. About getting the child where you want it when you wantit, there are one or two more considerations. The young child,say up to three to four years old, not because of original sin,but because he really must keep on the move to get all thethings accomplished that seem necessary to him, will not takeorders when he is before a camera. Past four years old, youmay be able to persuade him to do a few things for you whenyou ask. Again, children in groups are not always to be sup-posed harder to photograph than individuals. Pictured atplay, in the midst of their games, no matter what these be,they will be constantly assuming more pleasing arrangementsthan you can keep up with, however rapidly you press thebulb. Even when not at play, they can be persuaded of thepolicy of helping you very often by the mere suggestion thatthose who do not help wil Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The American annual of photography (1917) (14784108395)
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