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710 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. LNovEMBER 9, 1883. and thence up the Rhone valley by train. We sent our luggage, including the “plate-basket,” round by Geneva, which took just a week, while we went in heavy marching order, carrying knap sacks and photographic things, including about thirty plates. We were now in fine training, with faces like mahogany and muscles like iron, and we arrived at the hotel at Fee late at night on August 23rd, fresh and eager to attack a new district with ice-axe and camera. Fee is a most picturesque place, and artists abound there. As a climbing centre, however, it is by no means so good as the Montanvert, and the only mountain views I got were from the top of the Nadelhorn on a very cloudy day. I tried my hand, however, at views down in the valley, with indifferent success. I find them far more difficult than the more equally-illuminated snow and rock scenes. In Nos. 103 to 108 and 110 I en deavoured to give a longer exposure to the foreground by using a flap shutter or shading the lens by hand. In No. 110 this was obviously overdone, the foreground being too light. On the other side of the great range of the Mischabelhorner (seen in several of the photographs) lies the valley of Zermatt —Zermatt, beloved of mountaineers, and the capital of Switzer land. I could not go home without spending a few days there, especially as there were certain views I was very anxious to se cure ; so on September 4th I crossed the Alphubeljoch—this time alone with my two guides—and arrived at Mad. Seiler’s hos pitable hotel just as a heavy downpour of rain began. This was not cheerful, especially as it turned to snow at night, being wet and dismal all next day. On the 6th, however, the wind went round north, and next morning we started at three a.m. for the snow arete of the Rothhorn—a magnificent point of view. We climbed the steep slopes behind the hotel with a lantern in thick fog and darkness, and could not tell how the day would turn out, until about 5.30, when we began to see the forms of snowy peaks far above us through the thinning mist. We soon emerged into brilliant, clear air, the blue sky above us, and rolling seas of white cloud down in the valley below. The day was safe, and the results of the expedition are seen in the photographs Nos. 117 to 126. Next day we went up the Wellenkuppe, and secured a few more of the splendid views around, among which No. 127 shows no signs of the icy blast which met us as we over topped the snow cap of the mountain, in the teeth of which 1 set up the camera. We could only stay just long enough to take the view, and then hurried back again under shelter on the south side. My plates were now all used up, and I ought to have come straight home ; but the weather was set fair, and for mere climbing’s sake I went up two more mountains on successive days before starting home wards down the valley. Mountaineering by itself is one of the very best forms of exer- cise and recreation, and one brings home a stock of health and energy for the rest of the year. Combined with photography, it becomes a most delightful and fascinating pursuit. PARKER’S SKY SHADE. BY NOBMAN MACBETH, B.S.A.* The importance of the sky in its varied aspects, its bearing and consistency with the landscape, need hardly be pointed out. There is nothing so apparent in photographs of one exposure as the absence of this element, and we cannot but welcome any appliance which enables us to secure the effects of clouds and landscape with one exposure on the same plate. I am aware of one or two sky shades which have been referred to in the journals, and have read with interest of their purpose and intention ; but not having seen any of their operations and results, I am unable to speak of their merits. Except from a few medium sensitive plates of gelatine make— such as Fry’s, or the Britannia—we seldom see clouds produced but by double printing, and certainly those that Mr. Valentine and a few others have combined with the landscape must be acknowledged to be truly beautiful. They are very useful in their adaptation to composition and the effects of light and shade on land. But still, as they are liable to be very promiscuously and inconsistently treated, it would be a great advantage if they were true to the (landscape effects with which they were as sociated, not to speak of the labour attending double printing. Knowing that Mr. Parker, ex-President of the Glasgow Photo graphic Society, made some years ago a very decided improve ment on one of the sky shades which he saw in the British * A communication to the Edinburgh Photographic Society Journal, I regret very much that I never had my attention particularly called to his device till lately, when he and I were on a photographic excursion. I was greatly delighted by the ease with which it was managed, and by the beautiful sky effects he secured by it on that occasion. Having a strong desire to possess a sky shade such as his, he very kindly offered to get one made for me. And here permit me to state that I am sure that nothing but his extreme modesty and retiring disposition prevented him from making this im provement known long ere this. Believing that it would interest all true lovers of landscape and sky effects, and be helpful in advancing the interests of science and art, I induced him to allow me to bring it before the notice of the leading societies. Writing to me on the 19th of July last, when sending the sky shade, which he got made for me, Mr. Parker described at full length its construction and operation. It is composed of three separate parts, viz., first, the band or collar, which is screwed to the body of the lens tube; second, the lever arm ; and third, the pendant. The first, the band—A in the accompanying diagram—has pinching screws E and F at the top and bottom for fixing the lever arm when set. The second, the lever arm B, has four square cuts on the top edge. The two outer ones are those on which the pendant is placed when the sky is covered by the card, and on which it revolves when pressed back to expose the sky. The two inner ones are those into which the top of the pendant goes when pressed its full length. Unless it enters these, the sky will not be completely exposed. In making the paper shade (or mask, as it may be called) for obscuration, gum together the white sides of a piece of black paper. Cut a portion, say one and a half inch in width, and in length the full diameter of the brass of the front of lens. It must be shaped into the general form of distance as seen in the focussing glass. When shaped, insert it into the pendant, and fix it in a temporary way by the screw G. . Then looking on the ground glass, and carefully focussing the subject, raise or lower the lever arm till the mask covers the distant hills and sky. Hills on which one cannot see detail, intervening water and trees relieved against the sky, may also be covered by the shade. When the plates are of a medium sensitiveness, not re quiring long exposure, it is immaterial to have the outline of distance well defined; in fact, if the paper be torn somewhat into form, that is quite sufficient to serve the pupose. Of course, in the case of a sea view where the horizon is a straight line, no special form is required. Being satisfied with the extent of the view obscured, fix tightly the lever arm by the screw E, and still further pinch the screw H at the bottom of pendant. When all this has been done, lift the pendant a little, and slip on the cap of lens. Insert the slide containing the plate, and open it up for exposure. On withdrawing the cap, the pendant falls into its place, and the action of light begins on the landscape. After due exposure has been given (which must be a little longer than when a shade is not used), press back the loop of pendant at the top, elevating the black card, so as to uncover the whole sky. Almost at the same moment put on the cap of lens. The imperceptible interval will be found to have given sufficient exposure for the The principle of the sky shade has of course long been recognized and acted on. Ross and other makers have for many years sent out lenses fitted with shades, such as the simple Bap
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