AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



" For sport the lens is better than the gun. " 



/ wish to make this department of the utmost 

 use to amateurs. I snail, therefore, be glad to 

 answer any questions and to print any items sent 

 me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 

 ence in photography. 



No. I is entitled 

 Made with a 



camera. 



7th ANNUAL COMPETITION. 



Recreation has conducted 6 amateur 

 photographic competitions, all of which 

 have been eminently successful. The 7th 

 opened April 1st, 1902, and will close No- 

 vember 30th, 1902. 



Following is a list of prizes to be 

 awarded : 



First prize; A Long Focus Korona Camera 

 5x7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co., Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., fitted with a Turner-Reich Anastig- 

 mat Lens, and listed at $85. 



Second prize: A No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak, 

 made by the Eastman Kodak Co.. Rochester, N. 

 Y., fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Lens Plastig- 

 mat Unicum Shutter, and listed at $61.50. 



Third prize : An Al- Vista-Panoramic Camera, 

 made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burlington, 

 Wis., and listed at $40. 



Fourth prize: A Wizard C Camera,^ 4x5, 

 made by the Manhattan Optical Co.. Cresskill, 

 N. J., with B. & L. Iris Diaphragm and Leather 

 Carrying Case: listed at S3 3. 



Fifth prize: A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12 x 16, 

 made by D. T. Abercrombie & Co., New York, 

 and Listed at $32. 



Sixth prize: A Gold Hunting Case Watch, 

 listed at $50. 



Seventh prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 

 4x5, and made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., and listed at $15. 



Eighth prize : A Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, 

 made by the Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., and 

 listed at $6. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 8x 10 Carbutt Plates, made by the Car- 

 butt Dry Plate Co., Wavne Junction, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 5x7 Carbutt Plates. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 4x5 Carbutt Plates. 



A special prize : A Goerz Binocular Field Glass, 

 listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picture 

 of a live wild animal. 



Subjects are limited to wild animals, 

 birds, fishes, camp scenes, and to figures or 

 groups of persons, or animals, repre- 

 senting in a truthful manner shooting, fish- 

 ing, amateur photography, bicycling, sail- 

 ing or other form of outdoor or indoor 

 sport or recreation. Awards to be made 

 by 3 judges, none of whom shall be com- 

 petitors. 



Conditions : Contestants must submit 2 

 mounted prints, either silver, bromide, 

 platinum or carbon, of each subject, which, 

 as well as the negative, shall become the 

 property of Recreation. Negatives not to 

 be sent unless called for. 



In submitting pictures, please write sim- 

 ply your full name and address on the back 

 of each, and number such prints as you 

 may send, 1, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 

 dmess-ed Photographic Editor, Recreation, 



On a 



lens. 



plate. 



Printed on 



Length of exposure, 



paper. 



Then add any further information yoi: 

 may deem of interest to the judges, or to 

 other amateur photographers. Same as to 

 Nos. 2, 3, etc. 



This is necessary in order to save post- 

 age. In all cases where more than the 

 name and address of the sender and serial 

 number of picture are written on the back 

 of prints I am required to pay letter post- 

 age here. I have paid as high as $2.50 on 

 a single package of a dozen pictures, in 

 addition to that prepaid by the sender, on 

 account of too much writing on the prints. 



Any number of subjects may be sub- 

 mitted. 



Pictures that may have been published 

 elsewhere, or that may have been entered 

 in any other competition, not available. No 

 entry fee charged. 



Don't let people who pose for you look 

 at the camera. Occupy them in some other 

 way. Many otherwise fine pictures have 

 failed to win in the former competitions 

 because the makers did not heed this warn- 

 ing. 



HOME-MADE PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERS. 



Photographic printing papers can be 

 easily made at home ; all that is necessary 

 being to coat paper with a sensitive salt. 

 Silver nitrate can thus be used of the fol- 

 lowing strength : 



Silver nitrate 60 grains. 



Water 1 ounce. 



Wood, cloth, leather, the human skin, 

 and almost every organic substance, if 

 coated with such a solution, will be ren- 

 dered sensitive to light, and therefore pic- 

 tures can be produced on them. Such, pic- 

 tures, however, are of necessity dull in 

 appearance, owing to the sensitive salt 

 sinking into the body of the paper.. To 

 overcome this defect, use a substratum, or 

 size, to fill the pores of the paper, thus keep- 

 ing the image on the surface, and obtain- 

 ing brilliancy and transparency. The 

 preparation of photographic papers thus 

 falls under 3 heads : The paper, the sub- 

 stratum or size, and the sensitizer. 



Almost any paper will serve for photo- 

 graphic purposes, only those being useless 

 which contain substances liable to reduce 

 the sensitive salt, or render it insensitive. 

 Note paper is generally sufficiently pure* 

 also the various drawing papers, such as 

 Whatman's. A paper having a fine grain 

 will yield the best results, and the smoother 

 it is, the less likely are the prints to be 

 flat and muddy. For broad effects, and 



