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June 25, 1880. J THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 311 Next I retouch the negatives taken on the previous day already referred to, and take care not to give them the best “ ivory ” polish. I simply soften the hard lines of the face, but do not take all modelling out, and so destroy the true likeness. I receive all the sitters and visitors who come to “ look round, and kill time.” After the prints are quite dry and rolled, my assistant and I spot and touch them up. We have very few prepayments, and this entails keeping several account books. When the orders are finished, I pack, and send home late in the afternoon, as I am not so likely to be interrupted. It is best to be always cheerful and willing to please customers, letting them see you don’t mind taking trouble. This is sometimes hard to do, especially when you have just got your orders ready to send out late in the after noon, and a lady of uncertain age comes in to give you her mind, and keeps you half-an-hour pointing out “little ” improvements, such as taking off a little of the ear, nose, and mouth, to make her look less angular. It is a very important thing to know your price list well, also the prices of colouring, &c., so as to give a ready answer, and to let enquirers know you quite understand your business. It always looks well to keep your room tidy, and this is sometimes difficult, as things get dis arranged when you have been showing various specimens, and children pulling pictures about. Finally, we try to conform to the golden rule, “ Let the day’s work be done in the day, leave nothing for the morrow.” The morrow provides its own work. A. D. GELATINE PICTURES. Dear Sir,—The testimony given in your columns of last week from Mr. II. P. Robinson, to the effect that his recent experience of gelatine plates convinced him that certain results are in advance, instead of being behind, collodion, is one that will bo generally corroborated. Until this summer, owing to very bad weather, scarcely any real opportunity has been afforded for tests of undoubted accuracy. I say from experience, daily increased, that such photo graphs of horses, and other quadrupeds, or such perfection of large groups, schools, or wedding parties, &c., as arc taken on gelatine plates was utterly unknown in collodion times, except under the most exceptional circumstances. On looking back over an experience in photography of many years, I may say I never witnessed such an advance in the same time as has occurred in gelatine plates. With perfect truth it may be said that the objections are practically removed and the appearance of a gelatine negative is indistinguishable from a collodion, except in one respect, that not more than five per cent, of photo graphers ever found plates so smooth, clean, and free from blemishes as are the dry ones. The expense is less, for much less labour is required, and each person can do much more. Many more sitters can bo taken, more positions, the same also with views, instead of a whole day being required for a sit, it is but a very brief portion of one.— Faithfully yours, Samuel Fry. will deny that assistants are better paid now than ever, have more constant employment, and that, on the whole, a better class of mon are engaged in the business; but we cannot all be top sawyers. Now I have been a photographer nearly all my life, and never had much cause to grumble at my pay. I have not as yet managed to reach £5 5s. per week. I once had four, and now have three. I have worked for fifty shillings, and even lately for forty shillings per week. If I want a situation, I take what offers, and at the same time look out to improve myself. “Beau Nash’s” advice is what the malcontents should follow. What is there to learn in photography that is not open ? There are schools of art and works of art for free study, there are works in legion on chemistry and photography ; the rest is hard work. You get good lenses, chemicals, &c., and any amount of formul how to mix and use them. Considering their rank in the social and educational aspect, photographersone and all are better paid than other trades men ; such is the opinion of yours, One or Many. THE GELATINO-BROMIDE PELLICLE. Sir,—My attention has j ust been drawn to a letter of Mr. Burgess in your last issue, wherein he states Messrs. Wratten and Wainwright indirectly obtained their infor mation how to wash their emulsion from him. This statement, of course, is no concern of mine, but what follows certainly does apply to myself, as he boldly claims the invention of the gelatine pellicle as his own, and states that he told me the best way to keep the emulsion was to dry it, and that he had actually shown me a quan tity partially dried. All that I need say is, this, that it is purely imaginary. If he knew, as he pretends, the best way to keep the emulsiou was to dry it, why did he not do it himself, and not send it out in the emulsion state, and in which he acknowledges he knew it would not keep ? Again, how comes it he has taken nearly seven years to make up his mind to this statement ? I wonder he did not let his imagination carry him a little further, and fancy he had also informed me how to make the emulsion before drying it. I suppose it’s so long ago that he has forgotten when he came to me, and begged that I would not make my formula known (as I had promised to do), as, if I did, it would be greatly to his disadvantage. 1 am really sorry to learn he has not been so fortunate with the process as I had imagined. If, however, this letter is merely a flourish of trumpets to a new issue of plates, I wish him better fortune in his new venture. 1 am much obliged for his kind wishes in my having benefited by the process more than he has, and beg to assure him that I am amply rewarded for my tenacity in sticking to the process through good and evil report for the past seven years, to know that from my doing so, the gelatine process has now got such a hold that nothing on earth will ever shake it off again. R. KENNETT. OXALATE DEVELOPMENT. Sir,—I seo one of your correspondents, “ Anxious,” has been troubled with spots in gelatine negatives. I myself suffered from the same on first using Dr. Eder’s oxalate developer, but on filtering the oxalate solution the spots entirely disappeared.—Yours, &c., A Beginner. ASSISTANTS. Sir, As “Beau Nash” remarks, this question gets aued, and seemingly to little purpose—seemingly, though 1 fancy it has some effect, if only to stimulate the xounger assistants to strive for some of the plums—ten pounders, I mean ; and further, I don’t think any old hand Ualk in the Studio. Messrs. Watson and Son, of High Holborn, have favoured us with a new edition of their catalogue, which now seems to contain every article, from a camera to a clip, that may be useful to photographers. We are glad to seo that the list has been properly classified, so that little time is lost in looking through it. Messrs. Watson; and Son supply gelatine plates, and are fortunate in being the agents for those of Mr. 0. Bennett. Messrs. W. and D. Downey.—We learn that His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, and Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, attended by Miss Knollys, honored the new studio of Messrs. Downey with a visit on Monday morning last.
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