26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1896. THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER AND HIS MISTAKES
Few people have any idea of the vast cals and paper. But aside from the time most nothing. But considering only six itpay ? That is, are enough good pictures artist would if he were going to Be sure that what you have on itis pleas- to have a horror of shadows, and will give $2500 ing to the eye. Remember that while you turn their on amount of money that is being spent by they to the work would hardly months out of each year would give $30,- produced to pay for this vast outlay ? The paint it. The question then resolves camera a white buildinX pay for the material. These --000 for San Francisco alone. shade, are studying your subject you are an artist with only little streaks of amateur photographers in San Fran- calculations So what vast question can be answered both ways. If itself down to light and which is dark under the are. if anything, too low, because many sums must the figures reach when the securing really any pyjture, for without and that as soon as you "press the button" window sills, and then wonder why cisco. Unlike the bicycle-rider, the ex- the of photographs of almost all there is to they people have dozen of prints made from whole country is counted, especially as it spots is considered, itdoes. no picture can be made; the art part of your work stops and "the don't get a picture. tbe camera devotee have only inaccessible the combination penses of Ifthe work simply be considered as "pic- The accompanying drawings, made from he has paid for his photographs commenced after tures," itdoes not, most decidedly. Some two different of Ifney millon outfit. These can be obtained at prices of the negatives secured by travelers of the Thames, willshow how to take a pic- varying from $5 tos.r)00, but the expense of Places never before visited by white men ture of a building and how not to take it. by a picture with a cheap camera is the same are, of course, worth hundreds of dollars Both were made the same person they contain, same spot about one as with an expensive camera of the same for the scientific facts but from the hour and a may be valueless as pictures from an half apart. One is all white, and in the size. photograph has less effect than money invested in artistic standpoint. it has in Tbe amount of In pictures drawing. There is very little is looking over the 2000 men- the strength cameras by amateurs in San Francisco tioned at the beginning of this article of detail, and the whole has a as washed-out almost impossible to approximate, hun- there were not 50 real godd pictures in the look. To tell what it is it must De ex- dreds have been, purchased by sending di- lot and not over 200 that had the cfairc to amined closely. rect to the manufacturers. Still it can the title. The rest were all failures, for The other picture is almost the perfec- safely be placed at $100,000. But as das one, or all, of a dozen different reasons. tion of light and shade, and can be seen Exposure developing ordinary been stated, this is the smallest part of was bad, bad and across a room of size. Every de- plates bad, greatest shows, even to moss the business. were but the cause of tail the soft that has failurs was the injudicious selection grown the ancient Many simply of over whitewashed amateurs make the expos- subjecte. The negatives looked as if the walls. ures and have the developing and print- people who took them had simply lffleymillIs one of the mest tempting ing done by men who make a business of "snapped" at whatever was in front of subjects for a photographer in existence, such work. their cameras. and itis very likely that more negatives A visit to one of the largest of these Among the lot of pictures mentioned have been made of it than any other places the City last week there was a batch of300 taken by a young building in existence. In one month of in revealed the lady through 2000 negatives had while on a tour Mexico. the year 1892 itis known that 700 amateurs fact that been devel- Photographically considered the was "took" indeed are they oped by days. cost work it. Few who visit them insix The of the almost perfect. She had used a bringing photo- plates, or films, ranged inprice 6%xß>£ England without back a sensitive camera of the most perfect pattern graph 2 cents each, say that of the picturesque pile. from cents each to 30 or $150 could buy she got clean, sharp average 10 apiece. and Tbe same rule that is demonstrated by on of cents This would negatives, have a picture drawings make $200 negatives. but she did not these two willhold good for any for the 2000 The cost in the whole batch of300. The plates, de- building. Follow of developing is about the same as the other the rule laid down veloping and making one print from each by the old masters in painting— "one- cost of a piate, which would make $200 negative her over $100. more. Then comes the printing, cost fourth light, one-fourth dark and two- which is Why did she fail to get pictures? fourth*middle tint," you also about the same, making $200, Sim- and will not be another ply she didn't have art a or a because tbe in her. far from getting picture. Itis the sub- total of $600. As there are three Ittakes as select a places large much art to subject for division of these and the harmonious ar- in town that do as a business a photograph as it does for a painting; of them as the one inquestion, and any number rangement that makes the merit of that is, ifyou want to make pictures. If a photograph of smaller ones, $2500 a week is not too high IFFLEY MILL WITHOUT SHADOWS AND DETAILS. IFFLEY of certain lines and forms. you simply want to make a negative of the MILL IN THE SUNLIGHT AND SHADE. Of course forms cannot be changed by the for work done this way. the same negative. It will be seen camera more thus said that the is much Dopu- front of your, house itdoes not take any it would be either all white or all black. rest" Don't think as long as photographer, but they can be selected by The next class of amateurs to be consid- that $5000 a week would not cover in Surely all, is science. what lar the East than here. itwould art at tnd there won't be any art in the To tbe amateur photographer there is you a sharp, clean negatiye that you careful study so as to produce a good effect ered are those who do all the work them- the amateur photographers many have have been reach millions. result. But the plainest housefront is ca- only one bit of advice to be given, and it necessarily a picture. in a photograph. This is selves, and their name is legion. The only spending for the last Considering have composition, lour months. In the the vast sums of money pable of being made a picture if one will was given to the professional over twenty The great with however, apd willhave to be upon expense they are to is for plates, chemi- winter months drops arises, — fault most amateur touched the work off to al- spent, the question naturally Does only study the light and shade on itas an years ago "study your ground glass." work is that itlacks shadows. Some seem at another time. Will Sparks.
both before and behind the tug loops. caustic after cutting, but very high Eng- Peter Mclntyre, San Francisco. The Fastened thus they are apt to pinch authority at up lish recommends instead the best amateur on is 10:19, the skin against bellyband, application record this coast the and often three times a day of the tinc- by P. D. Skillman on the Olympic track, EQUINE make a bad sore. ture a of calendula, remedy which, by the BAIRD'S OF LIST May 30, 1891. COFFINS way, It is always a good plan, withheavy seems peculiarly grateful to equine Next inorder is the three-mile run. The workhorses, to leave collars and saddles flesh. on, best that has ever been done for this dis- DISEASE when the rest of the harness is re- Girth galls sometimes form and need tance is 14:19)4 by P. Cannon, inScotland, moved, until the back and shoulders are only to be fomented and kept clean, when ATHLETIC RECORDS town of Govan, May 14, 1888. InEngland PAID FOR thoroughly dry beueath them. This is a they will disappear, but a saddle gall of a professional by the name of J. White tolerably sure preventive against sore the withers should never be neglected. If ran the distance in 14:36 at London, May backs and shoulders, but whether it is itis the result is likely to be fistula of the 11, 1863. This was exceeded by the ama- Qalls, done or not, no horee should ever be left withers, a very stubborn and serious Thomas, Sitfasts ar\d for night teur who ran the distance at LnVirvg,but the until all places where the trouble, indeed. All is not fistula of the Useful Data for Interested London, June 3, 1893, in 14:24. The rec- JReady JKose ords of amateur and professional in this Warbles country are the same— l4:39. W. D. Day, ir\ Outdoor an amateur, ran in this time at Bereen for Death Ev>er\ts. Point, N. J., on May 30, 1890, while James Grant, a professional, covered the distance in the time mentioned at Cambridge Field, Mass., August 20, 1890. The best time for jioW to Continuing my list of records, we come Manning covered the distance at Boston Arrange now the Pacific Coast is 16:20%, by C. L. Tay- JMot to running times for less than a mile. October 13, 1879, in2m. 00 3-ss. The ama- JMany Healthy People One-quarter mile (440 yards) always lor, at the championship games, October has teur record for this coast is exactly the 15, 1893. the Harness for been popular. America has the honor of same by Bert Coffin, May 5. 1894. Four-mile run. /llready holding the best performance. Wendell On October 18, 1881, The best performance Ihad the pleasure ever by JWe /\r- Baker covered the distance in sec- seeing Myers made at this distance is 19:25 2-5, Driving DoWn 47% of L.E. run 1000 yards on Glasgow, 8, onds on a straightaway track at Boston the old polo grounds in New P. Cannon at November 1888. ranged TKeir 1, York in Quite close to this stands English on July 1886. However, the best per- j2:13. Everybody considered a the ama- it remark- teur record, 4-5, by Willers, the Hill formance in this country on an ordinar}' able performance at time, 19:33 C. E. that and our London, . June 10, 1893. The professional curved track Is 48%. at Philadelphia, by judgment has been substantiated by the Funerals Myers, October 15, 188 L England's best lapse of time, for it still stands best record of this country is 20:12}£. by James the Grant, at Cambridge, Mas*., August time is 48% by a professional, R. Buttery, on record in the world, barring none. 20, to stands our ama- Akind-hearted man recently borrowed at Newcastle, on October 4, 1873. Almost William Cummings, great professional 1890. Close this also the 'record, 4-5, 'by Day, are people my pet driving animal with which to go equal to, this is the magnificent perform- runner, made an at teur 20:15 at Bergen There at least 200 walking the effort this distance streets in on a journey. Iknew him to be a kind- ance of H. C. L. Tindall, at the champion- once, but was Point, N.J., November 16, 1889. This dis- of San Francisco, good health 2:17 the best he could do at tance very"popular and likely to live many years, hearted man, or Ishould never have com- ship meeting hold at London on July 29, Preston, England, April 30, is InEngland, where it who have 1881. W. G. figures in already arranged of mitted my equine friend to his care, but I 1889, 48}£ seconds. The same time has George, an English amateur, all the championship pro- the details their when did his grammes. funerals. They have was fated to learn, for the hundredth been credited to E. C. Bredin, Iunder- best to on September Three miles is the favorite selected the coffins lower itat London wit the Oxford-Cambridge in which they will be and time, Isuppose, that stand, at London, June 22, 1895. The best 27, 1884, but only h students. buried paid could reach 2:16. W- now up cash for the same, as as Evilis wrought by record for the Pacific Coast is 50 3-5 sec- "We take the five-mile run. This well for the want ofthought Pollock-Hill managed to shave a fifthof a always burial plat, hearse, As well as by want of heart onds, by J. T. Belcher, inOakland, October 8, 1889, is the distance that is chosen for etc. second from that on March but he the championship of America. We call Nearly every undertaker in the Cityhas Inthe kindness of his heart new 9, 1880. The fastest of late years is 51}^ could only make it 2:15 4-5. This was it her an distance, although in figuring we several contracts of this kind, and all of driver desired to make Madame as com- seconds, by E. Mays. done at Oxford. . Thus 2:13 stands to-day, even would call itan odd number. The great- them are made by people who are sup- fortable as possible, and so in the interests A BAD WAY TO 600 yards, or nearly three furlongs, and no one has been able to approach of mercy DRIVE DOWN HILL. has been est record in the world at this distance is posed to be inrational frames of mind. he buckled the harness girth very Tbe breeching is too weight somewhat popular among within 24-5 seconds of that wonderful 24:40, White, Age seems cut figure, loosely. good loose and lets the of the vehicle come on tfce straps (called amateurs, and will by J. and was made at Lon- to no for some of the The same intention the tugs) hang it be noticed that the time. The best record on this coast is ' signed by prompted that on each side of the saddle, and they are pushed forward records are of a don May 11, 1863. The performance of contracts are men in the prime him to let out the holdbacks, by the truly remarkable char- 2:24 by P. D. Skillman. life, breeching shafts. The band that goes around each shaft and under the horse is acter. July 1, 1882, pleasure Sidney Thomas is not so very much worse, of who are noted for their cheerful- that the might not chafe her. also loose On Ihad the Three-quarters of a mile has attracted dispositions. Then a too and lets the shafts come up too high. of seeing L. Myers for on September 24, 1892, he covered the ness and good They have with light spring-wagon and a E. beat the record for more or less attention, although it is an simply provided camping departed distance in 24:53 3-5 at London. The pro- for their funerals to as- outfit he iuto the harness touches are well gone over with a tliis distance. It was on the old polo odd distance. The best time ever made withers, however, that is so pronounced grounds York, fessional and amateur records inthis coun- sure themselves that they willhave decent mountains. stiff brush. The currycomb should even by in New and he accom- for 1320 yards was accomplished by It was a not be experienced horsemen. Fistula plished the try are almost "necK and neck." Grant's interment. The undertakers think it very hot day. The loose used. Itis a distance in 1:112-5. Strange Thomas P. Conneff, an Irishman by harmful and unnecessary ofthe withers is a burrowing abscess among birth time is 25:22*4, at Cambridge, as above, nothing out of the way, but look upon it breeching was of no avail for holding back adjunct to a as it may seem W. C. Downs on May 17, and an American by adoption. This was load, horse's toilet. Acard should the muscles between the shoulder blades. 1890, while E. C. Carter, an American by adop- as sensible forethought. And according the and during every descent the en- be used in cleaning ran the same distance in exactly the done in3:02 4-5 on Travers Island, August tire weight the mane and tail, and It needs to be opened below its lowest tion, ran the distance in 25:23 2-5, inNew to stories told it has proved so in many bore upon the saddle. This for the a same time in the same city. But the 21, 1895. England's professional would rest stiff brush and a whisk point and thoroughly cleansed, an opera- record York on September 17, 1887. The best time cases. Men without families have dropped have been bad enough had the broom, wellused, extraordinary part of the affair does not stands next, for on June 30, 1866, girth are sufficient to cleanse tion for the experienced veterinary ;but I before ever made on this coast is 28:30, by George dead on the street, and had itnot been snug enough to hold the saddle the keep end here, for on June 10, 1893, E. C. Bredin the present generation been'for coat and the skin healthy. have seen saddle galls swell and break, so of active athletes D. Baird,at the championship meeting, their arrangements with the undertaker in place, but itwas not. nor was the shaft- ran the distance also in1:11 2-5 in London, was born, William Richards band tight But when, through carelessness or igno- as to simulate fistulous withers, and Ihave covered the May 30, lS92.j^^^^^H|^H^^HHß they would have been buried in the pot- enough to keep the shafts surpassing Tindall's best English record distance in 3:07 at steady. forth, rance, injuries are permitted to come on a found nothing better than a preparation Manchester, England. Ten mile run. This race, although quite ter's field. Back and from side to side, of1:12. The professionals are cast in the The best by an English all day long horse's shoulders or back there are reme- of equal parts of powdered hydrasiis amateur is 3:08% a in England, seldom run Some people have made arrangements the saddle-pad kept up a and shade by these performances, as the best by W. G. Georee his favorite is in ceaseless chafing on the mare's back, dies less severe and more effective than starch for bringing such troubles to a before retirement America. Whether itis on account of our for the minutest details of their funerals, and liniment, they have been able to do was on February from the amateur ranks. the by evening itwas bruised and burning however well blazoned 18/54, climate, or whether it is not a fad among even to advertisements in the news- sore. Then over landscape. 20. when James Nuttall ran at Man- The one-mile run is the great standard papers. There are a people the Harness was taken off. she was well the Treatment in each chester, England, in few who have case should be upon 1:13, nearly thirty distance and measures 1760 yards. The not been content with watered and fed and left to enjoy a good based the conditions. years ago. selecting their Ifyou have a simple gall, greatest time ever made was on August 23, coffins, but have had them night's rest, but her tired back got no taste which in its na- We now come to the distance that 1886, sent to their ture is a of is when George ran the course in homes. Such cases are rare, of the brush. The second day a bruise the trne skin, with justly considered one of the most popular 4:12% however. was swelling at London. This was after he became a "Yes: Ihave a good many repetition of the first, and when camp was and tenderness, arnica lotion is on any athletic programme, viz.: the contracts of the remedy. half professional. Conneff ran the distance in that Kind," said Undertaker made Madame's back was found to best It should be in about mile or 880 yards. As in the quarter Metzler when be the proportion mile 4:15 3-5 at Travers Island on August 30 of speaking of the matter, "and a badly blistered. What was to be done? of one part oi the tincture Amorica's son hold9the best on in great to six of water, applied by record in last year. T< ebest amateur record in Eng- many cases they have proved to The fence-rails and rocks, the trees means of a soft all the world, and better still, won be eood and cloth, kept itin an land is 4:17, by F. E. Bacon at things. Itis a sensible thing dead- walls for miles along the way which should be upon the gall international race. September 21, London. for anybody had and On July 6. 1895. The professional to do who has not a family abounded in the praises of a wonderful saturated every two or three hours. 1895, C. H. Kilpatrick ran record for to look alter Ifthere ha