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THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1931.
TALK ON AMATEUR
· PHOTOGRAPHY,
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your sitter, or better still, let the During the procedure talk to sitter talk, but whatever you do, don't talk medicine to a doctor and shares to a broker. Talk of some- Also SUMMER EXCURSIONS ON SALE JUNE 1st TO AUG. BLAL. thing which is not their daily oc- cupation.
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Don't go too 'near with the camera or you will get distortion, hands will be too big or, in the case of a large aperture lens, parts of the face might get out of focus. Have the lens at eye level and don't
Many portrait artists do
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Doo. 18 1831
Emir. of Japan Empt. of Asia Empr. of Canada
Nov. 7
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modelling, graduation and what you, yourself, are not in a perfect not. It is the seals from dark to mood. Try to establish a current white with intermediate greys, of sympathy between yourself and The correct placing of light and your sitter na this will help you shade is the artistic distribution more than this most expensive po PROFESSIONAL'S ADDRESS TO of tone, which, if satisfactory to trait lons.
I axpert west members of this the oye, is called woll-balanced.
To take a simple Blustration. If Club make studies of people they you take a card with stand place mention to your prospective sitter in pro already know, but before you even portion of three to four and USEFUL HINTS.
coins in each corner, then on
on the what is on your mind, study his or odges between each of the corners her face and habitual movemente Informations of much us sivc equally distanced and, say, one in of head, handa, shoulders and even amateur photographers was given
FOR. ONE and have your portrait ready Effective Nov. 15-GOOD eyes Hungarian the middle, you will feel that if by the well-known artist and art photographer, Mr. you put that card on one finger it before you expose.
will balance. Take one or more E. A. van Kobza-Nagy, los coins away from one alde only addressed members of the Hong- kong University amateur Photo and the feeling of balance im
in the Union mediately disappears. Kraphic Club.
The dark and light in a picture Assembly Hall yesterday after-
should be just as ovenly distrib In introducing Mr. Kobza, the tod, as far ne possible, Chairman sold that most of them coina on the card, before you can has seen some of his masterpieces get a composed and balanced ple- displayed by Mesare. Komor and ture.
Mr. Kobza illustrated his mean Komor, and they were glad to have
unbalanced an the opportunity of listening to ing by drawing such an art photographer as Mr. picture, with a stretch of water: housen at the edge and a bly junk Kobzn.
In the course of his address Mr.in front of the houses, all this betilt the ground glass, except if you ing, on the right-hand side. He take sitting persona down to the Kobza said:
Hands are Important. Some years ago photography was then balanced the picture by draw-knees,.
Empr of Japan an art-it was ing in other junks, in perspective. not regarded as
to know what to do with the altter's Empe. of Ala only an industry for producing on the left side, thus creating
hands so they leave them out. This Bmpr. of Canada likenesses. In this talk I am de balanced effect. He went o livering to you I shall not go back By:
Mar. 15 MKr. 18 Painter's Advantage.
Empr. of Japan la a great mistake because the Empr. of Hula far into the history of photo
Mar. 25 Mar. 20 3far. 29 are very
important as Empr, of Asta The painter can easily manage hands graphy, but I shall start at the
Apr. 22 Apr. 25 Apr. 26 stage when photography was re-to balance his pictures because he they are part of the sitter's ex-Empr. of Ustada Apr. 9 Apr. 12 May 7 May 10
May 12 May 14 May 20 May 2 can put in junka, clouds, birde or pression of personality. The blg. Empr. of Russia
May 20 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 1s Jun June 11 June 17 June 20 Not no long ago emulsions were anything else; even if they are not cat mistake you can make is to call Empt, of Japan
Empr, of Canada June14 June 7
July 4 used which were sensitivo to light on the landscape. But here we the attention of your sitter to bla Empr. of Asia only, and not to colour. You may arrive at the dimculties of the or her hands. As soon as you Empr. of Russia
wore that you are sure to have spoilt the remember those cloudless skies, camera artist. The junks blacked trees elc., and the dis not there and if he has no time pléture.
Avoid too much foreshortenlug to wait for them he has to return appointment one had when photo-record of the shore but no of the arms, and see that the hands graphing a garden-where nothing was to be seen of the flowers, and real picture. These illustrations are not nearer to the lens than the the picture turned out to be no-show you how important is the head. The light should come at an and distribution of the ple-angle of approximately 60, degreeA, thing but a mass of light
In the ease of aged persons (unless ahide.
Contrast is given by the tone. it be a study the light must come With the invention of panchro matic and orthochromatic emul- The absence of intermediate grey from almost the horizontal, other lons, series of coloured Alters and makes the print harsh, while to stao age will be exaggerated on the perfected lenses, photography be much of these greys makes it flat print. People with eyes deep in I might mention here that the their sockets cannot take light at came immensely important in all
erna high angle, as the eyes will dis- Chinese, especially the Northern branches of science, in commercy
liking for Chinese, have
shadows. As a Treat
appear in. art. To-day photography harsh pictures, and in
explain It rule the background should be Members of this Society, I be-from the fact that from the ear-darker than the highlights lieve, want to make real pictures.liest times Chinese intings were lighter than the deepest shadows.
and still are too dimensional, e. This will, make the picture The artist uses hia brushes to pru-outline only with colour but as out. duce pictures, plus the knowledge shadows. It is an historical fact of one thousand and one rules of that when the Empress Dowager Bari, In photography you have to had her portrait painted by an
use the camera Inglead of the
volutionised.
and
in a Ano art.
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tone ture.
the
and
stand
Powder and Lipstick Taboo. In the case of lady alttern, be avoided, as powder makes the face powder and lipstick should
of art as the camera admits. Only fed to traiture the half-tones/ too big while lipstick makes the then will your pictures have and shadows, in opposition to the
artistic value.
Public's Sense of Art.
mouth too harsh.
Do not put too much spotlight on the sitter, otherwise the hair will look as though it is covered with. Ice and snow.
brushes, and as many of the rules American artist he was not allow
shadows. In highlights, give the modelling, and their absence might destroy These age-old rules, together the likeness and personality. Por with the correctly (sometimes too tesiture is the most powerful fine
iu correctly) recordlug_camera, of art photography Art Photography. The general
tree, Taking landscapes, public of to-day have a remark-little to one side, might spoil yourself in profile very often and when able sense for art. You will often pictures, as will advertising pea- you deliver the portrait he will hear someone say, "I'm
deny that it is he. Also, do not *ters, factory chimneys, telegraph
Hense
not and
illustra-
As a general rule. don't take profiles of men. No one sees him-
artist but 1 know a good plcture
In any cases poles and other hideous "aigns of take strictly full faces, unless for Alles or passports.- when I see one."
our times." In portraiture and police
Is such a person is right. He has a figure studies you are independent (Laughter). Three quarters
and,
naconsciously, 10
and you may turn and twist your the best. knows what is good.
When composing a portrait have Mr. Kobza then went on to deal sitter as you please.
the head near the upper edge as Portraits and Figures.
Loo with pictures, drawing
much top space will make the At the Inst exhibition of your
It vyill tions on the blackboard. He con Club, portraits and figures
were portrait lose dignity and tinued: Katori Maru...
Saturday, 31st Oct.
Also the side-space must Through the ages our Fathers not very strongly represented, pro-appear to be slipping from the
frame. Kashima Maru...
Saturday, 14th Nov. of Art have worked on different bally on account of the belief that SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports....
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...Saturday, 26th Doc.
side of three and the other of four le perfected to such an extent that sitter is going to “walk out of the
picture." BOMBAY vie Singapore, Panang & Colombo.
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Mr. Kobza illustrated these points and one third-roughly three "Tokushima Mara
Friday, 30th Oct.
four. This shape is considered obtained with two or three ordin- with drawings on the blackboard. *Iyo Maru...
Wednesday, 11th Nov. the most pleasing and aesthetic ary electric bulba, or in daytime, the concluded: SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Japan, Honolulu, shape for pictures. You will find in any room with a window.
No Re-Touching. For portraiture you need a Los Angolos, Mexico & Panama.
that most of the paintings in the
The light should be soft and Ginyo Maru...
galleries, most Wednesday, 25th Nov.
sizes, longer focus lens than for allround camera
hand-camera can diffused, as too strong a light will cinema screens, even letterheads, work. Your
be converted into a long produce harsh pictures. Don't rely bocks and newspapers are of this ensily proportion. Your eyes are used focus lens by equipping it with an on re-touching. If you une ortho- to this shape and anything that attachment which will lengthen the chromatic plates, with filters in is, unnecessarily. of other propor. focus, provided the extension of the daylight and no filters at all in electric light, provided you place must remind bellows in sufficient. tions, will irritate. I must
of you that
A window, a piece of cheese your sitter in the correct light, speaking
there
left for a re- is nothing a plain back- decorative art, panels etc., as that cloth on a frame, would require
a chapter to itself, ground and a self-made spot-light toucher, unless there be defects in Factorod" Artistic Distribution.
are all that you need, and after the plate. A "Max Now, we have же
frame getting these things together you negative never will yield art pic- a given
look out for a victim tures! (Applause). and we have to all it out with amay picture. Photography_being mono-(Laughter). chrome the main effect will be!
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