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Show CAMERA CAN BE CHEATED Some Tricks In Poslno Are Known Only to the Photographer. "I always1 hate tu havo my picture taken because I have such a horrid long neck," said tii? woman, petulent-ly petulent-ly as she entered tho photographer's gallery. Ho smiled sympathetically. "Walt till jou see the picture I take," he replied. re-plied. "You won't know your own neck, so to speak. No, It Isn't In ro-touching, ro-touching, but I always pose a long-necked long-necked subject lower than the camera and tho neck shortens up. That's only one of tho tricks of the trnde. Tho hatchet-faced njan I poso looking straight Into the camera In n full light. Ills face seems to broaden and occomo more Meshy In this pose. The person with n fat, lound face I poso bo that soft shadows veil either sldo of tho face, which has n tendency fo mnko tho features nuno clear cut anil handsome. "I often have subjects! with crook ed noses. Now, a etooked homo should bo frankly attached that Is. tho camera should bo pol.itod directly at the crook, which reduces tt It I took It fiom the side the deformity would be exaggerated a hundredfold. "Tho homeliest persons need not fear having their plctuivs taken If they will put themselves wholly In tho photographer's hands and poso Just as they aie Instructed to." |