Salt Lake Times | 1890-04-09 | Page 3 | Something was Wrong

Something Was Wrong. "It was in the old days of the wet plate method in photography," said a photographer, photogra-pher, "and when an exposure of twenty seconds sec-onds had to be made and a sitter bad to be absolutely quiet. I had my subject as I wanted him and took off the cap. I left the room for a moment, and returning, found everything all right apparently. Apparently, Apparent-ly, I say, but when I went into the dark room and developed the plate I found it most terribly blurred. It looked as if the sitter had turned a handspring or thrown a somersault. somer-sault. When I went back I was mad, " 'What did you dor I asked. " 'Nothing,' was the innocent answer. Whyr " 'Look at that plate,' I said, 'and then tell me you didn't move.' "Here my sitter began to laugh at his picture. pict-ure. 'Well, I swear I wouldn't a' thought that just going over to the window to sp.t would have done all that, because I sat right down again.' "Philadelphia Saturday Review. Re-view. .