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Show Odd Devices for Pbotorrap7is. " There are various ways for providing surprising results in photography, tilings that in one age would have been called magic, but in ours recognized as scientific- tricks. The ghost picture, for instance, in-stance, in which a shadowy ghost through which material objects are visible visi-ble is seen between natural attitudes and occupations. This is produced by an almost instantaneous exposure of the figure that is to do duty as the ghost, ; followed by a full exposure of the figures and properties that axe to appear nat-; ural. Another novel trick was shown j recently in a photograph reproduced by j a prominent trade journal, which presented pre-sented tho photographer, seated at a j table, playing; chess with himself Bitting on the opposite Bide of the table, while he himself stood up in the background looking at his two selves playing. The figures were all on the negative, which was produced by three successive exposures of the plate, parts thereof being masked each time by a black velvet vel-vet shutter. Still another trick is that by which a person who likes that sort of thing may appear to be photographed riding upon a flying goose, or a fish, or any other desired style of ridiculous locomotion. lo-comotion. This is done by the subject folding upon his lap a huge piece of white or Blcy tinted card with the fanciful fanci-ful figure drawn upon it. Hjs face ap pears above the upper edge of the card and 6eems, in the picture, joined to the funny little body mounted on the goose or fish. The statue picture is made by about the same device. Photographic Review, |
