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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Superimposed Negatives. 



There are many methods of putting" 

 two or more photographs together with 

 interesting and sometimes startling ef- 

 fect. One of the most impressive 

 methods is that of skillfully blocking 

 out. in each negative as it is printed, 

 the section of the entire photograph 

 that is to be supplied by parts of other 

 negatives. An effective and attractive 

 photograph is here shown of Master 



boy and the marine scene. And last, 

 he printed the boy in position on the 

 eagle. It requires a skilled photo- 

 grapher to do these printings success- 

 fully, so as to have them merge into 

 one smooth picture. 



Our less skillful amateurs can obtain 

 the same, or nearly the same effect, by 

 printing each negative entire, then, as 

 might have been done in this one, the en- 

 tire marine scene could be mounted and 



AN EFFECTIVE RESULT OF SUPERIMPOSED NEGATIVES. 



Teddy Freeman, Stamford, Connecti- 

 cut, riding over the bay on an eagle. 

 In making this picture, the photo- 

 grapher, Mr. G. B. Windsor, who 

 kindly lends it to us, used three nega- 

 tives. First, he printed the marine 

 scene and blocked out of that, by 

 opaque material so that it would not 

 print, a stenciled pattern of the space 

 to be occupied by the eagle and the 

 boy. Next, he printed the eagle, block- 

 ing out the space to be occupied by the 



photographs of the eagle and the boy 

 carefully cut out and pasted in place. 

 If the cut edges were visible, a touch 

 with the paint brush would have cor- 

 rected that. Then one negative could 

 have been made from the three photo- 

 graphs and from that prints as desired. 

 This method of pasting is not so effec- 

 tive as that of superimposed prints, but 

 it has some advantage where the pho- 

 tographer is skilled in the use of an 

 artist's brush, because he can then 



