Show PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN LIKEN T Br BT DIRECT PROCESS WITHOUT UT NEGATIVE NE GA TIYE Picture Is Made in Camera by Immediate I Exposure ing Plate flate and Saving Valuable Time in News Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper paper Illustration j t I Ill Iii ra 1 I I 1 I li ep lr i hWI I I L 1 k kI rI I I IL L i w I Itt tt r a aA A ct 7 r M THE HERALD BUILDING Reproduced from a photograph made in the camera by a new process of Direct Exposure The picture shown above illustrates a notable advance In the photographic art It is a reproduction of a by b a new process which Is peculiarly peculiar adapted to newspaper illustration by b the rush methods of the tIme dally daily It represents the tile first experiment made by Harry a Herald photographer with the tile new equipment which has just been placed upon the time market markeL The photograph is the direct exposure and is made in the camera The TIme negative Is entirely eliminated thus reducing by b about the time required r In turn turning turnIng turning ing out the picture To get an idea of this wonderful process it Is necessary nece ary to fol follow follow follow low the photographer photo from front the tIme dark darle room to the street and back again It is exactly seven minutes before 2 Under the subdued rays ras of a soft ruby ruly rub light time till plate holder is i loaded not with ith the ordinary glass glaas pates but with the sheets of stiff white paper of corresponding size Both sIdes bides of the paper look and feel exactly alike and it itIs ItIs itis Is necessary to place ilace the paper between the tIme teeth to determine the sensitized side The on that adheres to the teeth is so 50 placed as to receive the time exposure The slides are arc then adjusted as with ordinary glass plates How Picture Is Made It is now five minutes before 2 The Tile photographer takes a position across the tIme treet street from The Herald building and after getting the focus Inserts the plate holder withdraws the slide and presses I the bulb hull with the shutter set at of or a second se ond The photographer goes goes back upstairs and the goes hack back to the dark room loom It is now just 2 TIme The sheet of paper is withdrawn from the Its white surface bears no Impression that Is visible to tho the human eye eje The Tile developer over it and as the fluid flows over the surface out outlines outlInes outlines lines of ot a building begin to appear The Tile impression strengthens and Is soon com corn completed completed but it makes a sorry picture The white walls of the building appear a adeep adeep adeep deep black while the deepest shadows are transformed Into high lights In other words Its a negative photograph Two minutes after 2 the picture is taken out of 01 the tle t e developer rinsed off of and placed In If a bleaching solution The Im Impression impression Impression swiftly fades away until not a trace remains It is rinsed again and arid placed in a clearing solution Two more precious minutes gone and nothing but buta a blank sheet of pa er It looks that way hut but the smooth white surface re retains retains retains its wonderful potential It Is placed In the final bath and In the twinkling of an ej ey e the picture comes out clear and distinct This time it is a positive pic plc picture picture ture a ml 1 correct reproduction of or the nat natural natural natural ural high lights and shadows And it Is just twelve minutes since the vaDer paper was placed In the Tho The ordinary photographer will Inter rupt r Pt at this tills point and antl call all attention to I Ithe the fact that while the lights and shad shadows shadows shadows have been Leen adjusted by b chemical ac action lion tion the picture ils us still reversed The rhe signs read backward the south end ap appears appears pears to be at the north the impression is the same Sante as 85 is conveyed by bJ a It mirror This Is the fact The picture of The Her tier Herald Herald ald aId building Is 15 mirrored on the time sensitized surface surf ce of the time paper as it comes from the dark room The Herald business office occupies the quarters of the Salt Halt Lake Route and vice Iee versa The Time Fleur de lAs Lis is at the left as you jou ou face the tin building and the Bamberger offices at the time right The whole business Is reversed Well so far faras faras as making a half tone Is concerned so much munch the better bolter One process the mak male making making ing of 0 the negative has been eliminated and the picture is only halfway to the press The Tha engraver smiles as he takes the re reversed reversed versed photograph to make the cut emiL The rho fact that It is 15 i reversed saves him him twenty minutes of valuable time He too leaves out one process In transferring the pic picture picture picture ture from the paper to the zinc with tIme the result that the tile cut is ready for the tIme form forum formin in thirty minutes Two To processes have hae been eliminated one in photographing and one In engraving They The balance each other so far as tile the reverse effect Is con concerned concerned concerned and the normal picture appears in inthe Inthe inthe the newspaper reproduction It Is Just tort two minutes since the paper was placed in the |