If you want to give your imagination free rein on something—just try taking table-top pictures during a few of the long winter evenings.
With a few simple materials that can be picked up around almost any house, you can create all sorts of picture situations—in either comic or serious vein. Spread out a piece of plain, dark carpet, and you have an attractive grassy lawn. Put a doll bouse on it, add a few toy trees and a driveway made out of sand or salt—and you have a handsome country estate. "Slip a few wads of crumpled Paper under the carpet, smoothing it down neatly—and you have hills and valleys. A toy automobile on the drive, a few toy cows or horses scattered about—and you have a complete rural scene.
It's as simple as that.
For table-top pictures, any kind of camera can be used. If yours is a fixed-focus camera, or one that focusses only to ive or six feet, slip a portrait attachment on the lens—this. enables you to take close-ups. The corea should be placed on a firm support, and the lens closed down to "la small opening. This makes both wear rana far objects sharper. Time exposures should be made, using either ordinary electric bulbs or, preferably, regular amateur photo bulbs.
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