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The AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER I
ta 6 CINEMATOGRAPHER a | October 25th, 1933
HOTOGRAPHS by LANTERN
By LESLIE S . SHAW,
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ELECTRIC lighting and super¬ sensitive panchromatic plates have done much to popularise the taking of photographs indoors during the months when, in the ordinary way, cameras would be relegated by all but the keenest photographers to the cupboard.
Many fine pictures can be made by the judicious placing of ordinary household lights, while for the photographer who can purchase one or two of the specially actinic bulbs which are now on the market there is practically unlimited scope for indoor work at all times.
Every lantern worker who owns or can borrow a projection lantern should read the following article. It offers suggestions for a simple form of home portraiture that can be conducted in the evenings, and will produce many novel and striking pictures.
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If there is any fault to be found at all with the use of high-power lamps for pictorial purposes, it is that they give too much light, rather than too little. I mean by this that they give a flood of light where sometimes only a small concentrated area is required. It is possible, of course, to arrange screens to cut out un¬ wanted luminosity, but the effect is not always the one w|iich it is desired to capture. Heavy, massed shadow effects, for instance, are not easily obtained without the aid of a spotlight — an accessory which very few amateurs would care to indulge in.
A short while ago, when I found it necessary to take some photo¬ graphs which displayed these heavy shadows, I experimented and found an ordinary projection lantern ideal for the purpose, giving me anything I wanted from a large circle of light to a small “ spot.”
The ihuminant itself was a lamp
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