Identifier: newenglandmagazi1891bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ion was one of them, and the pictures must be not less nor more than a given number of inches in dimensions. But few amateur photographers competed, for the difficulties of lighting for portrait and figure work are said to besuch as to exclude this class almost entirely. Not many even of the professional photographers rooms are properly lighted. When a group of figures is in question, the ordinary difficulties of lighting are multiplied. A lady who was one of the unsuccessful competitors for the Enoch Arden prize last year has related in The American Amateur Photographer her experience in preparing plates for the contest, and this account is calculated to give a vivid idea of the labor and trials incident to such an undertaking. It is easy to guess what is the feeling of professional photographers towards amateur photographers. Nothing is more natural than the contempt and aversion entertained by professionals many specialline of work for the presumption of amateurs. Nevertheless, as an outsider,
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EVANGELINE. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and. forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows. PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION OF POETRY. 93 and with all the impartiality of ignorance, I may venture the suggestion that something may be learned from the amateurs. Their photographs are not always perfect, and they make many blunders; but in their plates (however deplorably over-exposed or under-exposed) we often perceive a certain quality, not easily defined, — a distinction, a style, an unconventional suggestion of beauty, — which, ascandid professionals are bound to admit, is not always to be had at six dollars the dozen. But this is a rather delicate topic, and the conclusion to which we arec

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