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RECREATION 



accurately gauged and the increased exposure 

 for the yellow screen can be ascertained at 

 the time of purchase. This is better advice 

 than quoting any given time here, which 

 may and may not be correct. 



In photograohing flowers, especially those 

 with white blossoms and under a glass roof, 

 it is often a good plan to stretch a screen 

 of some thin colored tissue paper between 

 the flowers and the source of the strongest 

 light. A sheet of pink tissue will help won- 

 derfully in bringing out the delicate half- 

 tones of white flowers, for instance, and dif- 

 ferent colors can be used as required. This 

 paper screen is also excellent when work 

 has to be done outdoors. 



ADVICE AS TO THE USE OF STOPS. 



Another question that I am frequently 

 asked concerns the stop or diaphragm that 

 ought to be used in taking any given sub- 

 ject. Provided the lens is a modern anas- 

 tigmat, I say, use the largest opening the 

 lens will give. The beauty of a fine lens 

 is that it will, with its largest aperture, give 

 perfect definition to its very edges and at 

 the same time allow of a very rapid exposure, 

 but it must be remembered that this defini- 

 tion only extends to a certain depth, and if 

 any particular object which is deep is being 

 photographed and perfect definition is re- 

 quired from back to front the lens must be 

 stopped down. The lens should then be 

 focused on the centre of the object with 

 the largest aperture and then stopped down 

 until perfect definition is secured. Do not 

 attempt to focus with the lens stopped down. 

 A small aperture will give lots of sharpness, 

 but all atmospheric quality and effect of dis- 

 tance will be lost, and these are the greatest 

 charms in landscape photography. 



BLISTERS ON BROMIDES. 



Do you ever 'get blisters on your bromide 

 or gaslight prints? If so, it is largely due 

 to your own carelessness. Too strong a 

 fixing bath will often give blisters. The 

 remedy is obvious. Amateurs are too fond 

 of taking up a box of hypo or some com- 

 pound fixing salts, and dumping the contents 

 into their trays without knowing how much 

 water they are using, and frequently the 

 bath is away too strong. Again, few ama- 

 teurs have a regular washing box for their 

 prints. Generally the prints are thrown into 

 a basin or tub and the water allowed to 

 splash on them freely. This will often cause 

 blisters. In warm weather the water, unless 

 kept cool, will produce blisters. When blisters 

 occur they should be pricked with a fine 

 needle from the back of the paper and the 

 air squeezed gently out. Do not prick the 

 film. If they are small, they can be left to 



themselves, as they will dry out, or they 

 can be touched with a pad of cotton dipped 

 in alcohol, which will help to reduce them. 

 If the paper being used is apt to show blisters, 

 the paper can be rubbed on the back, before 

 development, with the pad of cotton and 

 alcohol. 



SOME USEFUL MEMORANDA. 



Here are a few points which are well 

 worth remembering: 



Keep your prints well separated when fix- 

 ing and washing. 



Developer stains on bromide prints can be 

 removed by a solution made up of hypo, one 

 ounce; water, five ounces, and potassium 

 ferricyanide, ten grains. 



To straighten a print out, pull it over the 

 sharp edge of a table or desk drawer, face 

 upwards, holding the ends firmly. 



Don't hang your camel's hair dusting brush 

 up on a nail in your dark-room. You use it 

 for removing dust from your plates, not to 

 accumulate all the dirt that is floating around. 



If you keep a basin of water handy when 

 you are developing with pyro, and dip your 

 fingers in it every time you put them in 

 the solution, you will not be so apt to stain 

 your finger nails. 



WINNERS OF PRIZES. 



We have much pleasure in publishing the 

 awards made by the judge of our Photo- 

 graphic Contest, in the competition just 

 closed : 



First prize, $25.00 — "Spring-Time," Mr. 

 Jos. R. Iglick, Rochester, N. Y. 



Second prize, $10.00 — "Michigan Sugar 

 Bush," John A. Barton, Detroit, Mich. 



Third prize, $5.00 — "Bass Fishing at Long 

 Beach," Chester M. Whitney, Bayonne, N. J. 



Consolation prizes, $1.00 each — 

 Mrs. D. S. Whitehorn. 

 H. Beeler. 

 Harry Bayliss. 



B. S. Brown. 



Miss Florence Iglick. 

 Frances R. Ives. 

 Leroy Harris. 

 G. C. Embody. 

 S. Hawthorne. 



C. H. Wagoner. 

 Rannie Smith. 

 E. Kelly. 



Fred Sheckler. 

 J. A. Faber. 

 Grace P. Willard. 

 Sam Stevens. 

 G. W. Fiske, Jr. 

 Jno. S. Perry. 



