Cartoon time with Willie Lai
TEEN V
TiALE
LOOK TEN YEARS YOUNGER
Perfume
The 17-21
Club's
five rules
Membership in the 17. 21 Club is open to all within that age group,
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* STAMP NEWS
The 1897 $1 postal-fiscal provisional THE $1 on 96c. of the 1891 series had been withdrewn in
1897 becaus
forged
The fact
$1 ́ surcharges on a quantity of 10c. stamps. that the 96c. and 10c. stamps were both printed in purple on the same red base paper gave rise to the fraud.
A quantity of $2 revenue stamps were given a $1 sur charge locally by the Contributions and all ac-Government Printer: 39 tivities of the Club will sheets of the $2 olive-green be limited to members of the 1867 issue and 15 only.
sheets of a 1890 reprint Contributions may con-
made in a bluish-green sist of anything that is (from the same plate on publishable articles, CROWN CC paper but with letters, stories, photo-14 x 14 perforations) were graphs, drawings, verses, used, and they were given But only the best will handstruck Chinese sur- be printed.
charge before being sold.
HONG KO
There are a few varieties; vertical Chinese · surcharge
• All contributions MUST pairs are known, one stamp missing; with the diagonal
be original.
Written contributions should not consist of!
with and one without the surcharge missing; and with Chinese surcharge; with the a small "a" in DOLLAR.
more than 350 words, 1897 provisional postal-fiscal
photographs and, draw- ings will only be accept- ed in black-and-white.
SG F. 10 $1 on $2 olive-green
(p. 151⁄2 x 15)
F. 11. $1 on $1 bluish-green (p. 14 x 14).
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"GEE, NOT J!
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NEW MEMBERS
Ali Kitchell, 18, student, Selina Fung, 17, student, 664 King's-road, B57, 4th 49A Conduit-road, Hong- floor, Hongkong.
kong.
Lou Shung-kwong, 17, Gloria Maher, 18, student, student, Flat 22, Sai Wan 6A Castle Steps, 2nd floor, Terrace, Quarry Bay, Hong- Hongkong. kong.
Tong Hin-yin, 18, student, 2 Tsap Tseung-street, 1st floor, Hongkong.
:
Peter Shek, 17, musician, 260 King's-road, 2nd floor, Hongkong.
•
John Edwards, 19, student, 12 Briar-avenue, 1st floor, Hongkong.
Andrew Tai, 17, student, 33 Grampian-road, 1st floor, Kowloon.
*********** THE
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you feel thirsty, Johnny dear?
Credit card to Nancy Fung.
THE THIRD EYE
FILL THE FRAME
WITH A 2'x21⁄4*
NEGATIVE THIS
雄
63% WASTE
*4ft
TO ACCOMODATE A STANDING FIGURE 6ft. TALL IN A 35mm, VIEWFINDER, 4ft WIDTH OF PICTURE MUST BE ACCEPTED. 63% OF NEGATIVE SPACE IS LINRELATED TO THE SUBJECT.
K
“WASTE" AREA
REPRESENTS
75% OF THE
NEGATIVE.
75% WASTE IF THE
Gft.-
SUBJECT IS
A HUMAN
BEING, POSE HI
6ft
OR HER SO THAT
THE FRAME IS
FILLED
AND.
..COME IN CLOSE!
A FULL LENGTH FIGURE WILL ONLY MAKE A GOOD
PICTURE WHEN POSED AS THE FOREGROUND OBJECT OF AN INTERESTING BACKGROUND.
Baney Fury's
MOST PHOTOGRAPHERS DO NOT USE THER. VEW-
FINDERS TO THEIR BEST, ADVANTAGE. WITH A
SMALL FINDER YOU CAN BE DECEIVED INTO
THINKING YOUR SUBJECT FILS THE
· FRAME, WHEN IN FACT IT
DOES NOT. LOOK
TWICE
A
B
IN POSITION "A" THE PHOTOGRAPHER, DECEIVED BY THE NEARNESS OF HIS
SUBJECT, BELIEVED
HE WAS NEAR ENOUGH, ACCEPTED THE VIEW-
FINDER PICTURE WITH-
OUT THOUGHT. IN
POSITION BHE JUDGED HIS SUBJECT BY VIEWRNDER ALONE AND FILLED
THE FRAME.
e
BY USING
DIFFERENT
BUT-BY-CROPPING DOWN, NEGATIVE A WOULD REQUIRE TWICE AS MUCH ENLARGEMENT AS NEGATIVE 'B'. WITH SOME CONSEQUENT LOSS OF QUALITY AND INCREASED
"GRAIN."
/B
DEGREES OF ENLARGEMENT
BOTH NEGATIVES COULD
YIELD PRINTS OF THE
SUBJECT AT
IDENTICAL
SIZE.
CROPPING
SHOULD ONLY
BE ACCEPTABLE
WHERE THE
PHOTOGRAPHERS
POSITION MEANS HE CANNOT AVOID UNWANTED, (PRELEVANT-
SUBJECT MATTER CV HIS
NEGATIVE
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