The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

132 THE FERROTYPE.
patron who wants a likeness, and not a picture
of tables, chairs, flower-pots, busts, etc., etc., ad
nauseum.
When making a position, the artist should avoid
touching the clothes or person of the subject as
much as possible. The Ferrotypist can scarcely
keep his hands and person as neat and clean as
the professional positionist in a first-class gallery.
He should, therefore, recollect that in many in-
stances his fingers leave a stain wherever they
touch, no matter how clean they may look
besides, the hands are almost always wet or
damp. To take, then, the head of a lady
between the palms of the hands, as I have seen
done, is an outrage. The best way is to stand
some little distance off, and scanning the po-
sition, give the subject verbal directions for any
desired change of position. In case you can
not make yourself understood or obeyed, then,
by taking the head between the tips of the
fingers, toqching the hair, and avoiding to touch
the face, the head may very gently be turned
as desired. In most cases, by touching one
hand to the side or back of the head, will be
sufficient to apply what force is necessary to
make the change. The Ferrotypist should
learn to make positions quickly. The assistant
should have the plate sensitized while the
position is being made.
A kind and obliging treatment of customers
is the best way to secure a good expression ; at
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