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SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1953.

Che SNAPSHOT CUILD

Beautiful sky effects are easy to captura when you use a Niter.

Improving Your Snapshots with Filters

re-

FEW weeks ago, a A Friend Wing marked that his snapshots never turned out like the pictures he saw in maga- zine ads his skies were never as dark and patural looking and his clouds never so billowy white as those of the professional photographer. I suggested, as a solution to his prob lem, that he try using filter.

A British Crossword Puzzle

1 Ban.

ACROSS

4 Imposture.

7 Maritime.

A

8 Thread.

9 Show clearly.

11 Exhausted.

13 Rust.

15 Metallic lump.

18 Illumination.

19 lung around. 28 Dismal. 21 Number.

YESTERDAY'S

1 Receiver.

2 Staff.

3 Ordained.

A Stimulus

DOWN

5 Putting out of countenance.

& Protect.

10 Water

12 Remark upon.

13 Gathered.

14 Groom.

16 Inexperienced.

17 Hot drink.

1 very simple. All you have to remember is that a K2 has a filter factor of 2:

that is, you should give twice normal ex- posure. Since the average ex-'

CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Slip, 4 Stratum, day with poture on a bright ordinary snapshot film is /118 Rich, Halo, 10 Recoups, 11 Blas, 12 Mete, 14 Picture, 17 at 1750, it should be, with a K2 Erode, 19 Ledge, 22 Torment, 20 Sore, 27 Dens, 28 Minster, 20 alter, f/0 at 1/50, or f/11 at Ague, 30 Espy, 31 Intrude, 32 Stew. Down: 2 Loafer, 3 Probed, 1/15. This is easily understood Serap, 5 Thesis, Alof, 7 Upper, 12 Mect, 13 Tour, 15 Undo, when you realise that the filter 16 Epec. 18 Indeed, 20 Essays, 21 Grouse, 23 Orion, 24 Miser, 25 is absorbing some of the light; Terse. therefore, you must allow more light to reach the filin

"But suppose my camera has |

I know someone no seilings?"

11

13

24

aking that question. Well, a Using the proper filter at the non-adjustable camera can take a K2 if it is loaded with fast right Ume can do

more than panchrumatle film. What I mean any other single thing I know

is film that requires half or to give your pletures a pro-

much light for an average ex- fessional touch. Let's take a K2

as ordinary roli Alm. yellow Alter, for example,

Ita posure

Such fast film automatically most common use is to

make

takes care of the filter factor; siy and clouds stand out

camera settings arc their natural tones,

172

no

necessary,

Sometimes,

# the light Le The K2 transmits all colours in equal amounts except blue, strong enough, you can use o which

Is partially absorbed. filter even with ordinary snap- shot film. The next time you Therefore, when you put a K2 over the lens of your camern go to the beach or a lake on & notice how and shoot a plelure of the sky, bright sunny day,

15. Tight stronger the blue is absorbed much some of the

from the by the filter.

Dazzling reflections As a result, the

and water give it much nky in your picture is darkened, sont while the

Clouds by contrast are made more striking. This is called "sky correction."

The use of a K2 filler does not present an exposure prob- lem. On the, contrary, exposure

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

#7

"

THIS IS ON ME

"NO-NO T INSIST /

DAILY ALL THUMBS CONTEST-

THUMBNAIL

SKETCHES

WENDY

HOP IN

EH- NO THANKS

ME?

I'M GOING THE OTHER'

0

YOU WERE SITTING ON A PLAIN THRONE IN A HALL. DOORS OPENED AT THE

FAR END AND TWO WOLVES WALKED IN

THIS DREAM MEANS:

The dream of a spoilt or only sori, put on a greater intensity, in fact, that pedestal usually by his mother-and made to

ght is so bright that you can feel different and superior to others. sen K2 without making any adjustments on your

camera. "Sitting on a throne in a hall" means hold- Just slip on the Alter, aim, and ing a position of privileged and unquestioned or in one's life. Tho authority in the home shoot,

John van Gullder. wolves are obviously women who enter your life:

All Thumbs

SHE WAS TOLD SHE WAS BORN WITH A

GREEN THUMB

"WE ARE ALL

LOST IN THIS

GOING TO GET

JUNGLE ONE OF

DAYS!

THESE

HOT ROD SPECIAL

HE WOULD RATHER THUMET ON A FLYING SAUCER

RIDE

|| DOUBLE- EXPOSURE – AFTER WARMING

THE BENCH: ALL SEASON HE GETS HIS CHANCE

"YOU DON'T

SAY

A POET * ALL THE WAY

ROUND

AUDEN, through the jungle.

POETS OF THE ENGLISH Born in York, 1907, són of a

LANGUAGE, Edited by W. H. Audon and N. H. Pear. son. Five.volumes. Eyre and Spottiswooda. oach. 2,956 pages.

151.

N the middle thirties, he did all the things that earnest young men did, or would have ilked to do.

His heart was in all the right

doctor. Auderi went from Gresham's School, Holt, to Christ fluence spread outwards: over Church, Oxford, whence his in-

the

young, tils fame reactied their elders,

Every three weeks he wrote a poct; declared that "the. mibject

a port

of

cm is a peg to hang the

poetry on." Main subject of his poetry, approaching death (by his own hand) of bourgeois society.

His almost albino bair and

places, bled for all the right lost close-set eyes impressed Stephen causes. He was for China against Spe Japan, for Jowish refugees

(see "World Within Harnish Hamilton)" Ho against their Nazi torturers. He won a sinister pubtle reputation visited Loyalist Spain.

for keeping a revolver. In his wrote witty satirical, desk and for working at mid- didactic poems and plays, full of day in artificial light with, the irreverent echoes

and. sardonic

half-parodies. NEW BOOKS

His lyrics those

of an intelligent

woman's

Noel

Coward -rang

lans

premont

blinds drawn, a

green shade over

He was Oxfoni

GEORGE Marxist, Anglo-

Catholic.

wwisen

collaborate

I

with him."

MALCOLM THOMSON of doom through smart ported companionate-pintywright cabareta.

Christopher Isherwood, "I have

or: He was immensely confident, to keep a 'sharp eye him or self-assured, a bom leader, He down

Hop the characters on Bald of the world of letters: their krees," "Evidently they are waiting for someone." Nobody who heard him was likely to doubt that "they" waited for. Wystan Auden.

ONE SAT ON YOUR VE

LEFT. THE OTHER

SAT IN FRONT OF -YOU AND PUT ITS HEAD ON YOUR KNEES, BOTH WERG

GRINNING THEN AS YOU STROKED THE ONG IN FRONT OF

YOU IT SLOWLY TURNED INTO A WOMAN IN A LONG ROB5 ·

In 1037 he received the King's Gold Medal for Poetry (n Buckingham Palace) and two- edged compilment from admiring fellow pools: We salute in Auden (although we do not forget all that can be said against him), the first English poet for years who is a poet all the way roundTM*

(In Now Volcce magazine), it

In 1938 he Journeyed to a war (Chinese) with Isherwoodma "Auden knows that we won't be killed because Nanny would never allow it

and It Can't Happen Here... It would be utterly provincial, like' 'a street accident in Newcastic-on-T

-Tyne.

Or New York?

Auden was in

4.

When It did Hoppen Here,

that city writi his poem September 7, 1939: "I sit on one of the dives

Street On Fully-Second Str overtures, but when you

Uncertain and afraid o As the elruer. hopes expire Of a a low dishonest decade," In next, less dishonest, decode England got along without gelir arsistence of new US. Cilan Auden who, to King's Gold

added Medal, soon

Pulitzer Prize

they make friendly accept them you realise their true nature.

The real truth is that when women refuse to continus spoiling and mothering you, you feel cruelly done by. You are the privileged person; they are the wolves who rob you of

unending and your birthright, ie., love and admiration,

uncattical

your

One can only suggest you come off childish high seat and grow up.

BY HARRY WEINERT

THE THUMB

IN THE SOUP.

BABY'S PACIFIER- EVERYTHING ELSE

IS TOSSED ON THE FLOOR.

I'LL HANG THE PICTURE FOR. YOU DEAR

GET YOUR FIRST AID

KIT/"

HE NEVER MISSES - HIS THUMB, THAT IS

Embarrassed friends, remem

bering his dictum;

tion, the pous lies on his brevolu

the

top of a roof and thools BETOSS

the lines at his best friends," wondered if the sub-

fect of the poem had after all. only been a peg to hang the

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him in New

| pocity-oni - OTR, the

Visting

find crucifix on drawn

Curtains acrosswindel, poet stouter, apt to complain: "What's so awful in this county is that people will take and seriously."

Poetic individually as vigor- as ever. In nawiyolime, "Nones" (Faber);"Auden writes: "Thou shalt not be on friendly

terms.

With guys in ad me,

Nor speak with nich

As read the Bible for lia prose, above all, make love to those

ΝΟΣ

Who wash too much.'”;

to

His original, analytical mind

is on display in the introductions the voltimes of this bear- 3,000-page anthology of. Engista poetry Volume Vo contains verBO from Tennyson to Yeats or be- tween 1870, and

1914. Says Auden: It is a natural epoch. In 1070, Pope was declared in- fallible, and Emperor Napoleon Ill shown to do, rather less so. The stage was bot for attack on the Liberal conception of free-

closes on a gloomy note: "It is the exceptional man, the man of talent the man who

works

"who has be the # oblept of great- stimp!

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