SCHERING'S PYROGALLIC You Know Get acquainted with SATRAPOL (Monomethyl-para-Amidophenol) Varitone Tablets SCHERING & GLATZ, 58 Maiden Lane, N.Y. NEW AND SIMPLE METHOD ...OF.... Lighting in Photography by Daylight and Artificial Light By C. KLARY. Handsomely Illustrated by numerous Reproductions of Photographs from Life, and by Explanatory Diagrams. An English Translation of this book has been printed and is now ready for circulation. Price of the book, English Edition, $1.60, post free. Size, 6 x 9 inches. Send all orders to THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES 135 WEST FOURTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Pictorial and Scientific Photography. Edited by W. I. LINCOLN ADAMS. SITE OF SHADWELL, BIRTH PLACE OF JEFFERSON. Illustration. HOUSE IN WHICH GRANT RECEIVED LEE'S SURRENDER. Illustration. HOME OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. Illustration..... WHERE JOHN SMITH FIRST LANDED. Illustration.. PLANTATION SCHOOLHOUSE WHICH JEFFERSON ATTENDED. Illustration. SUBSCRIPTION RATES one dollar and fifty cents a year, payable in advance. Foreign Postage 50 cents, Canadian Postage 25 cents. Single copies 15 cents Subscriptions to the PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES received by all dealers in photographic materials in this and foreign countries, also the American News Co. and all its branches. POSTAGE IS PREPAID by the publishers for all subscriptions in the United States, Hawaiian Islands, Philippine Islands, Guam, Porto Rico, Tutuila, Samoa, Shanghai, Canal Zone, Cuba and Mexico. For all other countries in the Postal Union, except Canada, add 50 cents for postage. CHANGE of addreSS.- When a change of address is ordered, both the new and old addresses must be given. The notice should be sent one week before the change is to take effect. DISCONTINUANCES. If a subscriber wishes his copy of the magazine continued at the expiration ance of the subscription is desired. HOW TO REMIT.-Remittances should be sent by Draft on New York, Express Order, or Money Order, payable to order of THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, Cash should be CONTRIBUTIONS.-All literary contributions, correspondence, "Queries," etc., should be addressed to THE EDITOR; all advertising matter to the Advertising Manager. WOULD prefer to write artificial light, but the term flashlight seems to have long since become crystallized into our technical terminology so that we must take it as it stands. The original "flashlight" was indeed a flash, a little bit of a quick splutter, an exposure, and joy if there was anything recognizable in the resulting negative. Then there were quickly a thousand inventors each with a device (patented generally) for producing his own pet splutter. Then we had the original magnesium powder displaced by a number of pyrotechnic powders-"absolutely instantaneous" "and without smoke." Those who devoted much attention to this kind of work soon found that when portraiture, including a large number of faces in groups, was undertaken the results from a flash were little less than ludicrous. Instead of a flame-flash something more akin to a cloud or sheet of flame was needed. As the possibilities of artificial-light work began to impress themselves in certain directions it was quickly seen that so-called flashlights must give way to a more exact, quickly arranged, well distributed, powerful source of actinism till at the present day we have stage and scenic effects at our theatres with a multitude of actors represented as well as though taken in broad daylight en plein air. An operator who had at one time a large experience in taking theatrical groups by magnesium light said to me once, "Why they would kick me out of the place if I offered to flashlight them now in the old way." Some of my readers would be surprised were I to tell them of the elaborateness and costliness of the lighting methods adopted by photographers who lay themselves out for this class of work. But I have nothing to teach workers of that class, I am sure, so far as lighting is concerned. I don't know, indeed, that I have started out with the intention of teaching anyone. I want to talk the matter over, and, incidentally, describe my own experience, and compare it with others to show why I arrive at certain conclusions. |