Snapshots at night are fun, and a delightful way to spend long winter evenings. Nowadays, with inexpensive lighting equipment specially designed for the amateur, night Srapshots are easy with any camera.
You can arrange interesüng and artistic "table-top" pictures, using toy automobiles, doll houses and miniature furniture, with a bit of bark carpet for grass, or sugar for snow, or a bit of glass on top of a dark surface to portray a quiet pool. You can also take informal portraits of members of the family, pictures ai them reading or busy with other activities, snapshots of the pets, and interior views of the home. Indeed, there is a wonderful range of picture chances, none of which occur outdoors.
The picture above shows how wight snapshots are made. A photo bulb is screwed into a bridge lamp, with a cardboard reflector replacing the lamp shade. The photo bulb yields an extremely bright white light, specially suited for picture-taking. - With two large photo bulbs in cardboard reflectors, three or four feet from the subject. you have enough light for snapshots with a box camera. With focusing type camera you would get satisfactory results by setting the lens e at 111 and the shutter speed a of a second.
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who PUMA William Llewellyn, several "test" pictures of each sodne: sident, on reaching the age-limit of shots this winter. You will learn retired after 10 years as pre-Don't miss the fun of night snap-15. Sir Eafvin, who is 69, designed much about picture-taking, and pro-the Cenotaph in Whitehall and the vide many an interesting addition to Catholic Cathedral at Liverpool. your album.
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