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DECENBER 18, 1885. j THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 807 which the fault lay. I started on this tour with Monsieur Tairraz’s one piece of advice as to development (the only bit of advice I received) in my mind, and it was “Deve lop till the plate looks as black as a mortal sin! ” Here, then, in a few words, was comprised my whole knowledge of photography, save that I could stifle myself iu the focusing cloth, and give the objects in front a most unstable appearance on the focusing screen. Knowing all this, my readers will not be surprised to hear that I took with me a store of the most rapid plates I could procure, and exposed them with the full aperture and for a con siderable length of time, imagining that thus the snow would appear more brilliantly white. At Brunnen I ex posed all of my six plates. On arriving at Anderwatt, 1 was seized with an earnest desire to secure some of the fine rock scenery passed during the drive from Geschenen, Crouched in a corner of my room, under a mackintosh and rugs, I endeavoured to change my plates, and at length managed to place six unexposed ones in my slides, after breaking two by trying to put them iu paper, clips and all. Soon I was on my way to the Teufelsbriicke, and busy giving exposures of about thirty seconds to the brilliantly lit waterfall and rocks. I felt great satisfaction at my afternoon’s work as I trudged back to the hotel, a frame of mind which, however, was not destined to last. The next morning, on stopping the carriage to take a view of the Rhone Glacier, my camera screw was not forth coming. I then recollected having placed it on the ground when packing up my things after photographing the afternoon before. Well, it might have been worse ; the lens might have been left behind. With what I was pleased to consider a great display of ingenuity, 1 tied the camera with string to the tripod, and proceeded to focus and expose. On the following four days the weather was perfect, The string as a substitute for the screw was called into constant use, and—the cap fitted so tightly to the lens that it required a good pull to get it off. My readers will probably at once forecast the future of my plates thus exposed ; but I was in blissful ignorance, and mused in a very happy frame of mind on the beautiful souvenirs which I was securing of that magnificent scenery. I had even the audacity to consider the advisa bility of offering my latest and most imposing work of art —a picture of some icebergs floating on the Miirjelen See —to the PnOTOGRAPIIIC News. As there were four pic tures on this plate, two through the plate having been twice exposed, and each doubled by the violent shake the camera had received whenever I uncapped the lens, the Editor of that interesting journal would, perhaps, have hardly felt a becoming amount of gratitude. Arrived at Zermatt, good Madame Seiler placed a room, more or less dark, at my disposal, and next morning I began to develop my two dozen plates. I won’t enter into the de tails of all that happened while I accomplished my work. It was a very unhappy, not to say humiliating time, and caused me to give evasive answers to questions asked me as to the success of my tour with regard to photography. I had still several dozen rapid plates, but I also possessed an instantaneous shutter, and I used it during every expo sure I made after that time on snow, till the end of the summer. I also learned many little dodges which helped me much when exposing at great altitudes. The two worst enemies of the photographer on these occasions are cold and mist; also the porter who invariably puts the slides in the sun while the unconscious climber has his head under the focusing cloth. Therefore, as the guide or porter is placing the camera and slides on his back, make him a speech on not interfering with your things while you are at work. Tell him you won’t be able to put him into any of your pictures if he does ; that threat in variably brings about the desired result. How many plates I have exposed twice over or other wise spoilt by the false kindness of those excellent people who insist on helping and talking and wanting to know where the picture is. As to cold, it is advisable for the photographer to accustom himself to do as much as possible, if not all his work on the mountain summit, in gloves, otherwise he may find that the cold has numbed his hands after one exposure, or even before one exposure, and further effort is impossible. The intensity of the cold on a mountain, even on a cloudless day, is difficult for anyone to realize who has not experienced it. Last year I found myself on the Dom, the highest mountain in Switzer land (17,800 feet) under these conditions. The sun was shining, the most distant peaks stood out distinctly, but an icy wind blew with great force, and our boots were frozen hard as iron. My two strong guides entreated me to remain on the summit only a minute or two ; they said that they could not bear the cold, even if I could endure it. Nevertheless, I was determined to make one attempt ; I put up the camera, but by the time it was ready for focus ing, none of us could turn the screw, and when at last we got it round, each giving help in the operation, the furious wind made it most difficult to focus. Clinging to each side of the focusing-cloth, my guides held it down as well as they could, but on development I found that both pictures were out of focus. Lower down the mountain 1 secured some views which almost repaid me for my disappointment on the summit. Last summer I used Wratten and Wainwright’s ordinary plates, and found them excellent for landscape work on snow. Within the last few weeks I have taken all my pictures on Eastman’s negative paper with his roller-slide, and I cannot speak too strongly in its favour. It appears tome to allow of a wonderful latitude of exposure ; so far I have had no failures with if, and I have tried it on a variety of subjects such as portraits, panoramas from the summit of a mountain, landscapes covered with snow, interiors, and views of trees and rocks in the shade, with the result that the pictures are more satisfactory than I could have got on glass. Zlotes. One of the few instantaneous views which really convey the idea of motion, is issued as our supplement of this week. It is a little difficult to understand why this picture appears more natural than most instantaneous photographs, but perhaps the absence of the individual who is so often seen in the act of rushing across the field, or with one leg poised high in the air, has something to do with it. Lieut.-Colonel Hooper tells us but little about his pic ture, except that it was taken with a drop shutter accele rated by the use of an elastic band, and that it was deve loped with Beach’s developer. Among the books which may shortly be expected from the prolific pen of Loon Vidal are a treatise on “ Photo- Ceramics,” and “AHandbook of Photo-Engraving.” This latter will include both line and tint work. Those who intend sending pictures to the Sheffield Photographic Exhibition should communicate at once to the Secretary, J. Taylor, 205, Sheffield Moor, Sheffield. The Exhibition opens on January 11th, 1886. We have great doubts whether the public will rush in their thousands to take part in the excursion which is being organised for the purpose of combining pleasure and
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