Show Wb li 11 u PHOTOGRAPHY 0 x Despite the fact that c so many martl 4 are engaged In it and that amai amateurs amateurs ama- ama I i have taken it up with l such enthusiasm here is an oc oc- oc occupation 4 which still off offers rs your yourt 1 t boy an excell excellent nt opportunity to obtain a livelihood and even to J i accumulate a fortune The popular popular pop- pop 4 ular competition has not InJured In In- H the business 1 By C. C W W. JENNINGS 4 J HE fact that photography Is Isa Isa a profession proCession of itself and E jt all allover 4 1 that thousands of men I j L over the world are getting rich by means of It In spite of the popular amateur competition com corn I petition has bas been almost lost ost sight lOt of except by those still engaged in the business The more scientific and artistic artistic ar ar- ar- ar Improvements that have come up have hav enabled those following photography photography pho pho- for their life work to keep ahead as they have always done and I there Is now a better field than ever for the exercise of or their talents It Is quite likely that your boy enthused enthused enthused en en- by the fair Qu quality Uty of the pictures pictures pic plc- tures he has been able to make with his cheap little camera aspires to the bigger attainments shown by the man who has made photography his busi- busi busi busi- ness It Is the purpose of this article to show him some of the steps he will wUl have to take to reach the success he I cra craves ves First he should apply to the proprietor proprietor proprietor etor of the nearest large gallery for a aJob aJob Job lob telling him that he wishes to become become be be- come a first-class first photographer If the proprietor has no vacancy apply to another The boy need not have had more mor than a rudimentary education for lor or academic training is not at all necessary Getting the job he will discover that he Is little mere more than a porter or a roustabout sweeping out the gallery washing bottes and doing other kinds of ordinary labor about the studio Naturally of at an observant nature your our boy will begin soon to acquire a vague understanding of or how various things are done His first glimpse of this new knowledge will come In the dark room where plates are removed from the holders after atter pictures are taken In the studio proper and other manipulating Is done His first work of really professional character will be to ch change plates In these holders polders learning that the least tilt bit of light will spoil them and to distinguish distinguish distinguish dis dis- dis- dis between the smooth glass side elde and the velvety feeling of the other This must be done entirely by nse of at touch In an absolutely dark darkroom Toom room oom or where where there Is only a as small 11 J red red light Then as he has been wa wi walh h hIng h. h Ing the shifting and substitution ot of arious arious a- a rious backgrounds as different e egos egos- feos- feos i Ures tires are made he will learn leam tha for i ia a bust picture of a woman wearing her hat the background will be of at a certain kind another If her ber hat 1 i II off art still another If the th picture Is to be full length etc and he will attend to this under direction of ot the operator Then he will take the negatives have been made by an perl- perl man to the roof root or light window window window win win- dow and make proofs which are to tobe tobe be submitted to the customer for approval approval ap ap- ap- ap roval will be shown how b put prints Into the water for washing and when they have bave been cleansed of all chemicals how bow to put them Into the drying rack how to take prints that havo have properly dried and mount them themon on the heavy backs and finally will do printing and toning without having hay hav Sag ing to be watched constantly by his boss I Pretty soon say within a couple of years tears after atter he has started your our boy will wUl be a full full- full fledged edged printer and earnIng earning earn earn- ing lag anywhere from 12 to to 20 a week according to the ability b he manifests This means that he will vili take tale the negatives negatives nega nega- tives and nad make inake prints In roper proper exposure expos expos- ure tire and develop them without having to be shown how His next and last stage which is la most Important will be that of opera opera- tor This i Is tIle tho man who poses poses the subject In the gallery knows just the proper background and the necessary lighting and shading to use the tho correct correct correct cor cor- lens and plate and the exact exposure exposure ex ex- ex- ex to be made whether of a tenth of a second or of a minute The placing ing lug of the subject the lighting and the exposure are the things that determine determine deter deter- mine the grade of the pictures for almost almost almost al al- al- al most anybody can c'an make good prints from a good negative but nobody can make a fine print from a poor one The Tho minimum pay for an operator operator- Is about 25 a week according to the standing and importance of ot the gallery gallery gallery gal gal- lery and nd experts expert In high-class high work get as much as 75 or nearly 1000 a a. year It requires years of experience and probably the tho development of a specialty for an operator to command 75 a week It will require much attention and practise to become a successful oper oper- ator Suppose your boy Is employed in la a scientific Institution such as a no museum He may be asked to make a large picture of or a a. skeleton eton showing oven even tho the finest of lines Unes In the Individual Jill ual bones with all their perfection c ct detail and yet ho be has to make the tha exposure In n a poorly lighted roo room with shadows and background al all askew askow It If Is up t to him to know Just what background to use how to p place ace various reflectors so so as to give dive the right light shadows and the tho exact required In the uncertain light to toma tomake tomake ma make e his negative exactly right the first time If he failed it might mean meana a waste of as much as 20 or more mOle morein morein in material He must know this Instinctively Instinctively In In- and through his experience Or he might be sent tc to a cathedral to tomake tomake tomake make a picture of an altar Obviously the altar cannot be mo moed ed Into a better better better bet bet- i ter light He must Just Just- the lens the proper paper paper and the exposure to bring the tho perfect result required How many amateurs could do this 1 After attaining high skill as an operator operator op op- op your boy will either get a position position po po- as head of a large corps of photographers photographers pho pho- employed by the government government government govern govern- ment or some public Institution or a firm that makes a a. specialty of some particular phase of photography or a museum or other scientific Institution I where he may earn a large salary or ox else he will go Into business for him him- self In the latter case there Is no end of opportunities for tor photographs of every conceivable thing tIling under the sun from portraits to ray X-ray pictures In hospitals are In universal demand also there Is Independent work to be bedone bedone bedone done In photo-engraving photo electroplating ing lithographing and other lines of mechanical photo Photographers Photographers Photographers Pho Pho- have grown rich In conducting conducting conducting con con- ducting galleries for portrait work alone There are ae persons who are willIng willing will will- ing to pay as much as 5 to 10 apiece for tor their portraits and the profits are very ery large CopyrIght ht 1310 1910 by the Associated Literary Lit Lit- Press |