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• Bandzählung: 6.1862
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1862
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[September 12,1862 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 444 Uulk in th Studio. DRAMATIO Expression in Photography.— We have just received from Mr. F. R. Window, unquestionably one of the most charming set of photographs we have ever met with. It consists of eight portraits of Mrs. Stirling, constituting a pro gressive series of illustrations. The lady is represented in the course of delivering her lecture on behalf of the distressed operatives of Lancashire. In the first she has just entered, and saluted her audience, and is standing with the easy grace and winning expression of the assured favourite of the public. In the second, the arms are slightly raised, and the countenance has assumed a look of earnest interest, as she states the case of the sufferers whose cause she is about to plead. In the third the earnestness increases, one arm'is raised towards the head which is thrown back ; the other arm is also thrown energetically backward as she becomes excited by the sad narrative she is reciting. In the fourth, ths body is thrown a little forward, and the arm, with finger indexed, advanced : the argumentative phase of the lecture has evidently been reached. In the fifth, with both arms advanced and body thrown back, she has reverted for a moment to narrative again, only to give point to the argument, which is renewed, and put with irresistible force, in the sixth, in which the countenance glows and the whole pose is instinct with the certainty of a triumphant and uncontro vertible position. The case has been clearly stated; the argu ment brought home to every mind, and now the heart has to be touched ; and in the seventh we have the appeal: the foot is advanced, and the body thrown forward, the hands are raised towards the breast and clasped, the head is thrown a little to one side, whilst the countenance is full of touching appeal for practical sympathy with the thousands of suffering operatives. In the eighth the peroration is reached. The body is drawn upto its utmost height, both arms are raised, the eyes sparkle, and the countenance is illuminated as with the inspiration of the sybil. In each of these, every part of the figure is full of life and motion, and the expression so perfectly corresponding with the action, leaves no doubt as to the intention of each picture. The axiom that action is the first part of eloquence, never re ceived more forcible illustration than in these felicitous render ings of dramatic power. The photography throughout is equal to the art. Delicate and soft, yet forcible and round, admirably defined and exquisitely perfect in manipulation, being free from speck or defect of any kind ; and the printing and toning leave nothing to desire, the tone being a rich deep warm neutral tint, without the slightest mealiness, and possessing, in every print, perfect uniformity. The last thing which strikes our attention, proves its excellence by that fact, we refer to the background, which is entirely devoid of curtain, column, pedestal, balustrade, or accessory of any kind : there is nothing whatever to distract the attention from the fine histrionic action and expression of the charming lady and talented artiste who is represented. We are rejoiced to see Mr. Window, whom we knew as an able amateur, stepping at one stride into the very foremost rank of professional photographers. MR. Glaisheb’s Balloon Ascents.—In one of Mr. Glaisher’s recent and most perilous ascents, in which he obtained a height of nearly six miles and became insensible, after passing through the clouds he attempted to take a photograph of the scene, but was prevented by the rapid motion of the balloon. He says:— “ On emerging from the cloud at Ihr. 17m. we came into a flood of light with a beautiful blue sky without a cloud above us, and a magnificent sea of cloud below, its surface being varied with endless hills, hillocks, mountain chains, and many snow white masses rising from it. I here tried to take a view with the camera, but we were rising too rapidly and revolving too rapidly for me to do so ; the flood of light, however, was so great, that all I should have needed would have been a momentary exposure, as Dr. Hill Norris had kindly furnished with extremely sensitive dry plates for the purpose.” Uo Correspondents. B. B. L.—With a simply iodized collodion, or one containing a very small proportion of a bromide, a strong iron developer is apt to fog. The greater the proportion of bromide used, the stronger the iron’solution maybe with safety. In our own practice, with a collodion containing from half a grain to a grain per ounce of a bromide, we find a 15-grain or 20-grain iron de veloper most suitable. 2. In summer the silver bath need not exceed 30 grains to the ounce. In cold weather it may be stronger with advantage. An Operator.—The most probable cause of the yellowness of the print en closed is the use of an old or acid hypo bath. It may arise from other causes, but as you do not mention any of the particulars of produc > cannot say which cause has been in operation. . have F. Amos.—In order to take large landscapes with the portrait lens y back purchased, first unscrew the hood and remove it, then unscrew _ . lens and remove it, next unscrew the front lens and place it in tthe tion before occupied by the back lens. The lens is now tobeLembewill camera for use with the front lens alone ; the central stops in the " Any be a little in advance of the lens, as it should in using a view lens. camera which takes the plates the single lens will cover, ana e y 24 sufficiently for the focus of the lens, which will probably be about i inches, will do. zgand J. G. Lock.—There is still something to improve both in yournegmuyktive. printing. Your friend is wrong in pronouncing No. 1 a perfect nega Chemically it is probably pretty good, but the lighting is very dEKfear The sun appears to be shining directly on the light buildings, whicnapi fiat, and without the relief caused by shadow ; whilst the green tre • a in shadow and appear black and flat for want of light. You have i ’ mass of white and a mass of black, without relief or gradation. • would be better for deeper printing and less toning. No. 3 scarce: J.L sesses sufficient vigour. No. 4 is better, but the subject is not well lip , No. 5 possesses the same fault as your former portraits, too muchaiu light and no direct light. Negatives may be practically weak, tM re wanting in contrast, and yet require long printing. Vigour depennsciute on the relation between lights and shadows than upon the al ri. amount of deposit. Read our series of articles on iron negatives ana the liant prints in last volume, or the articles on a similar subject m Photographic News Almanac for this year. Never tone prints Adish light, or the purity of the whites will be much degraded. Keep the with the toning solution in the dark, or in a room with yellow lighlhe amining the progress of toning hastily by a weak daylight now and Stereoscopic negatives taken with a bi-lens camera always reguirfzd prints transposing on the mount. Negatives can be sent by post if Pap” in a case, but not otherwise. et Emil. Seelig.—We are at the office, generally, on Thursday afternoon you can call. 1o Richard Hilton.—The article to which you refer describes the methegen getting similar stereoscopic effect, or relief, in distant objects, to that 5 . by the eye in near objects. To obtain simply the natural amount of rEnes produced by ordinary vision, the lenses should not be more than 3iFd apart. 2. The ammonio-nitrate bath for printing may be used with vantage. The time required for floating the sheets depends upol . amount of alkalinity, and the strength of the bath. With a very st, bath decidedly alkaline, ten seconds may be sufficient. If slightlyath line, longer floating may be safely employed. To strengthen your w ' make it a practice to keep adding sufficient of alOO-grain solution tomi tain always an equal quantity in the dish. I, N. II. W.—We presume, that in speaking of a gallery facing south, - McLachlan meant the sitter facing south. With the sitter facing no ' the need for his arrangement would not exist. We do not know "I coloured gauze, or net, he proposes in his background arrangement, D should presume a light grey. Your specimen of glass arrived in fragments, rather coarse powder, so that we are unable to test it in the spectrosco- John E. Browne, Canada.—We called and enquired personally about remittances and order. We found both had been duly received. = reason given for the delay was, that a photograph ordered in your etgd was not yet published. We understand that the order will be despatch as soon as the photograph can be procured. We hope the next time!" write, you will be able to say you have received the goods safely. u Rapid Dry Process.—In the letter of H. & J. Walter, describing a raa dry process in our last, in page 430, column 2, line 19, for Keene's " e Process Collodion,” read Keene’s “Dry Process Collodion;” and ol" following page, line 71, for “Mr. Wade,” read “Mr. Wardley.” a James Date. — The prints enclosed are not mealy, but are examplesa what has been styled measles. They bear every appearance of impel fixation, from the use of old or weak hypo. If either of them had t markings before toning and fixing, we cannot understand it. We nlg met with the dirty, yellow mottling exhibited, but from the cause! p named. You need not apologize for troubling us: we have pleasur assisting our readers. .J Bewitched Bath.—Your negative has not arrived ; but we have recsns an intimation from the Post Office authorities that a “ packet contally broken glass, addressed to us, is detained, and will be delivered on fers meat of one shilling and four pence postage. We presume that this r'uy to your negative, which has been insecurely packed, and insufticitn: prepaid. We see no reason, from your further description, to believezle the collodion is at fault. It is most probably the bath, but we are Udjos at present to throw further light on the subject, beyond what we state® jj week. To you, as to a correspondent above, we repeat that no apotor needed for placing difficulties before us. All we ask is the clearestnues, sible description of the conditions. Let us know if the trouble conttetbe Your parcel has arrived since writing the above. We will examil plate, and report next week. R. G.—The sky is too dark, but only because the negative generally req more development or intensifying. It lacks contrast generally. ntwo W. Steele.—We remember seeing the advertisement you name. Ihod issued by some provincial firm; but we do not remember certainly "gaod nor can we readily ascertain. The effect to be obtained was inartist I(l bad, so we gave the matter very little attention. In reference to the or be advertisement to which you refer, we regret that we cannot cont that il answerable for the bona fides of such announcements. We hoP5 will prove merely a case of neglect, not dishonesty. ittedto J. B. Boden.—In the case you refer to the writer has evident I on ; 480 mention that after dissolving, 12 ounces more water arc to be »( bath, grains of nitrate of silver require 16 oz. of water in making a on the II. Cooper, Jun.—We shall be glad to receive your communica use of benzoin and other gums with paper in positive printingteurdeld Un de vos ABONE's.—You will doubtless be able to order the Mr direct of Photographic through any foreign bookseller, such as Duau, in pond 011 of the publisher, Lieber; but we do not know of any P- where you will meet with it without ordering. II. G. B —Your note on glass-rooms, with comments, in ourne Mr. Glaishe G. G.—You will see from a photograph in another column tna seen from the has attempted to paragraph the exquisite cloud scenery balloon ; but that at the time circumstances were unfavour Several correspondents in our next,