AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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

 I wish to make this department of the utmost 

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

 answer any questions and to print any items sent 

 me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 

 ence in photography. 



AND NOW COMES THE 6th COMPETITION. 



Recreation has conducted 5 amateur 

 photographic competitions, all of which 

 have been eminently successful. The 6th 

 opened April 1st, 1901, and will close No- 

 vember 30th, 1901. 



Following is a list of prizes to be 

 awarded; 



First prize; A Long ^ocug Kororia '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 Goerz Double Anastigmat 

 Lens, and New Automatic T. I. B, Shutter, and 

 listed at $61.50. 



Third prize: An Al- Vista-Panoramic Camera, 

 made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burling- 

 ton, Wis., and listed at $40. 



Fourth prize: A Wizard C Camera, 4 x 5, 

 made by the Manhattan Optical Co., Cresskill, 

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

 Carrying Case; listed at $33. 



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 $20. 



Seventh prize : A Tourists Hawkeye Camera, 

 4x5, and made by the Blair Camera Co., Rochester, 

 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 8 x 10 Carbutt Plates, made by the 

 Carbutt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, Phila- 

 delphia, 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. 



Subjects are limited to wild animals, 

 birds, fishes, camp scenes and to figures or 

 groups of persons, or other animals, repre- 

 senting in a truthful manner shooting, 

 fishing, amateur photography, bicycling, 

 sailing or other form of outdoor or indoor 

 sport or recreation. Awards to be made 

 by 3 judges, none of whom shall be com- 

 petitors. . . 



Condition: 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 en the 

 back of each, and number such prints as 

 you may send, 1, 2, 3, etc. Then in a let- 



ter addressed Photographic Editor, Rec- 

 reation, say, for instance: 



No. 1 is entitled . 



Made with a - camera. 



lens. 



On a 



Printed on 



plate. 



Length of exposure, 



paper. 



Then add any further information /ou 

 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 

 warning. 



CAMERA NOTES. 



GENE S. PORTER 



It is a truism to state that photography is 

 expensive. We all know it. My only ex- 

 cuse for mentioning it is as a prefaee to 

 my reply to the question I am frequently 

 asked, How can I make my camera pay ex- 

 penses? Make pictures with it that will 

 sell, of course. What kind will sell? Sim- 

 ilar to those that are sold. If you can make 

 a fair picture, you can sell it if you send it 

 to the right place. 



All photographs offered to newspapers 

 and to magazines using cheap paper should 

 be printed as clear and sharp as possible, 

 to make up for what they will lose in the 

 half tone process. You can not print them 

 too sharply, and for reproduction gelatine 

 paper is almost universally used. The ma- 

 jority of pictures that go to illustrate news- 

 papers and cheap magazines are of the rec- 

 ord of fact variety, and their object is to 

 set before the public as clearly as possible 

 the thing or event they illustrate. There- 

 fore, include in trimming them only such 

 parts as help to tell the story. For illus- 

 trating poems, books, and first class maga- 

 zines, high grade, artistic pictures are re- 

 quired. The kind of pictures depends on 

 the nature of the publication. Newspapers 

 want illustrations of current events, red 

 hot from the griddle; and they pay the 

 highest prices I know of, for the poorest 



