It is said that if the amateur photographer wants to lose hi Portrai a lot friends quickly he need only make
fof truth in this, unfortunately, and the snapshotter' would be well advised to start experimenting with Someone who is not to hit back when he sees the per-flaps startling results obtained!
The impossibility of dealing with the immense subject of portraiture in a brief article, except in a most way, compels us to select the most helpful information likely to assist the average amateur and let a great many points pass unmentioned.
The commonest errors of amateur portraiture are under-exposure, excessive contrast, false perspective, and wrong values. We are of course using the word "amatou in the usual narrow sense and mean by it the beginner or not advanced amateur, for in photography the real" amateur is quently a better worker than the average professional.
Under-exposure is best guarded against by the use of some kind of motor as recommended in our article op exposure, although the exposures therein mentioned will serve, bearing in mind that near objects require full exposure.
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