The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

DEVELOPER AND DEVELOPMENT. 133
the same time, that nothing of an offensive
nature should be allowed any-where in sight,
such as a dirty spittoon, a broken piece of fur-
niture, or a dusty chair. One of the best artist
photographers in the country, on taking posses-
sion of an entirely new gallery, which was fitted
up in a gorgeous manner, regardless of expense^^
glass-room carpeted with fine body Brussels;
walls and ceiling frescoed in most beautiful and
expensive manner ; light of heavy plate glass,
in strips of ten feet long, by two or more wide
—
ventured the remark that he was "going for
ex})ression " in his new gallery. In this case
every thing was so well calculated to please
and delight, that the remark was justified.
Much may be done by an attentive operator to
secure good expressions, even among poor sur-
roundings.
It has been almost universally the rule, here-
tofore, and is now to a great extent, to expose
the sitter to a flood of light from above, from
the side, and the front— light every-where ; the
consequence of which has been, pictures with-
out half tones, without modeling, and without
strength or brilliancy; the lights were all high
lights, the shadows all opaque. The principal
cause of this tendency, has been the desire to
secure rapidity of action, making short the ex-
posure of the sensitized plate, and proceeds from
an error in the expectation. Let the light be re-
duced; let at least two-thirds of the light be