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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 277 Oe Vqotographit Zlebs, Euue 11, 1880. photography in and out of the studio. SorAR Physics—Photography and Weddings—An Associa ¬ tion roil Professional PHOTOGRAPHERS. Solar Physics.—There appears just now to be a conside rable amount of heart-burning in the breasts of those scientific gentlemen who have made the sun the subject of their daily thoughts. It was started by an article in the Standard about a month ago, wherein the advisability of continuing the Government grant in aid of researches in solar physics was strongly urged. It was laid down that the study of the sun’s spots and their variations was of extreme importance, since the meteorological condi tions of the earth were possibly subject to these varia tions ; and very much in the way that Tenterden Steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands, so Indian droughts and famines, storms, cyclones, commercial panics, and a good deal more besides, were due to the erratic behaviour of the sun’s spots. This appeal for pecuniary aid seems to have greatly excited those who are not disposed to give the sun credit for these terrestrial disasters, and one Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, writing in a quasi-scientific journal, did not hesitate to stigmatize it as a “ begging letter article,” and to insist that “ not one Englishman in a million ’’ had, prior to the appearance of the exordium, the faintest idea of the existence of a “Departmental Committee on Solar Physics,” upon a report from which body, it should be mentioned, the article in question was based. And the Fellow was not content with this, for ho went on to state that all the articles upholding the Departmental Committee and the culpa bility of the sun were written by members of a ring who were moving heaven and earth to pick the national pocket under the flimsy pretence of making “ original re searches.” This is certainly a very serious charge, and, whether true or untrue, places one on the horns of a dilemma ; for if the Fellow be right, then the credit of the “Committee on Solar Physics” for accurate observation and sound deduction is completely undermined ; while if he be wrong, then the sun, whose sins of omission are already numberless, is really much worse than we have generally believed him to be. Photographers, who may be said to have a strong personal interest in the reputation of the centre of the solar system, will be pleased to hear that the balance of opinion, so far as it has yet gone, is not m favour of the views of the " Departmental Committee,” for Lord Lindsay, writing to the Daily Tele- graph a fortnight later, pointed out that observations of sunspots had for years been made at observatories both public and private, too numerous to mention, while re cords of observations of sunspots, from the date of the invention of the telescope down to the present time, had been collected by Dr. Wolf, of Zurich, who deduced from them tables showing that sunspots did not vary in the regular manner that was commonly supposed. “ On one occasion,” observed Lord Lindsay, “ more than sixteen years elapsed between two consecutive periods of maxi mum sunspot development, and at another time two con secutive maximum periods followed one another within seven and a-half years.” And his lordship wound up by expressing an opinion that we are far from being able to predict the dates when sunspots will be most developed, while, if men were able to make such predictions, there is no evidence to show that there is any more connection between sunspots and famines than there is between comets and wars or the planets and the death of kings. But this is not all, for a “Fellow,” returning to the charge the following week, pointed out that, while Professor Stokes, in writing to the Indian authorities, stated that for the st year or two the sun had been in a condition of unusual dutesence,,80 that in the whole scries of photographs 8nnome there were only two or three small spots, the mittee, in their report, considered that Mr. Lockyer, by his laboratory work and comparison of the results with solar phenomena, had brought together a great body of evidence tending prima facie to conclusions of the utmost importance. Now this contradiction is, to say the least of it, singular; and, if it be true, as a “ Fellow "puts it, that Mr. Lockyer, by an examination of a mass of “ abso lutely blank and structureless negatives,” has brought together this “ great body of evidence,” why the feat must be deemed one of the curiosities of science. But where doctors differ it is rash to decide, and it may be that Mr. Lockyer has a good deal to say on his side. Now that photographic observation is so essential a part of astrono mical study, the matter should not be a difficult one to settle, as the evidence must surely rest on the records of the camera. The quarrel is certainly a very pretty one, and the question of whether the sun can change his spots, and, if so, how often, threatens to become a standing dish of scientific controversy, and by no means so easy to answer as the biblical interrogatory in reference to the leopard. Photography and Weddings.—Photography would appear to be growing more and more indispensable to the three im portant stages of life—births, marriages, and deaths—if, in deed, by any process of casuistry, death can be pronounced a part of ones’ life. Babies have long held the first posi tion so far as number is concerned, death may be said to have taken second place, and marriage the third. The connection of the latter epoch with photography has gene rally been signalised by pictures of wedding groups more or less ugly, and which pictures both bride and bridegroom at some after period of their existence must utterly loathe. After the severe trial of the marriage ceremony the nerves of neither the lady nor the gentleman can be said to be under that perfect control which is conducive to placid and natural expression of countenance, and more or less vacuity is generally the result. Now our Parisian neigh bours have began to order these things better, and instead of the hurried grouping on a lawn of hungry people if before the breakfast, or of exhilarated guests if afterwards, they distribute to each of the company, as a souvenir, medallion portraits of the bride and bridegroom. How much better is a fashion of this kind, which need not be expensive, and thus become popular, than the old form! The portraits of bride and bridegroom taken in the studio beforehand in the ordinary way, and approved of, must be in nearly every instance far superior to the results where, in most cases, she will be represented as looking intensely miserable. Besides, the medallion souvenir is one that can be put in an album, and so easily retained. .In Association for Professional Photographers.—It is easy to say that a fashion of some kind should be introduced, but here comes in a practical difficulty, which every portrait photographer must have felt over and over again. In other businesses dependent on fashion there are ways and means of starting a demand for some novelty. This does not appear to be the case with photography. There is no com bination of strength in the profession. One man may strike out a line for himself, but here it remains, known only to his particular customers, and without influence on the general public. This weakness has been greatly felt since the dwindling down of the carte mania. People do not wish to have their portraits taken, and photographers complain of a falling-off in their business—two things, we imagine, greatly due not merely to a want of novelty, but also to the absence of a unanimous resolve among photographers to push any novelty on its introduction, and so make it for the time being the “ rage.” Why should there not be some kind of association of professional photographers, which would enable them to meet and discuss matters relating purely to the commercial aspects of the profession ? In the ordinary societies these topics are of course tabooed, and wisely so, but there is no reason why there should not be opportunities elsewhere. There is certainly need of some impetus to raise the present drooping state of affairs, of which most portrait photographers are complaining.
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