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Composite printing is a frequent resource 

 with the artistic photographer who is pos- 

 sessed of reasonable patience and of some 

 dexterity in the use of the pencil or brush ; 

 but there are circumstances under which 

 the amount of detail work to be done in 

 blocking out the background objected to 

 would be prohibitive. In one such case, it 

 was desired to make a photograph, for bo- 

 tanical purposes, of a tree standing imme- 

 diately before a number of other trees 

 which it was sought to exclude from the 

 picture. Blocking out would have been 

 tedious, if possible, which was doubtful ; 

 and it was impracticable to hoist a sail or 

 other white screen to form a background 

 for a tree of the size in question. 



A quantity of damp rubbish was piled 

 behind the tree to be pictured, at a short 

 distance from it, and set fire to. The smoke 

 from the burning rubbish formed an artifi- 

 cial background. A lens of short focus and 

 large aperture was used, so as to diminish 

 the depth of focus of the camera, and 

 thereby confine the image as much as possi- 

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