Photography at home: A handbook to the use of the camera in the home for pleasure and profit

To the majority of amateurs, photography is a hobby to be ridden only on fair days and in pleasant weather; or it is thought of chiefly as a means of securing records of places and things seen during tramps abroad. But it is more than this, and those who follow photography merely as a summer pastime know but the half of it. In these pages we will discuss something of the other half, and set forth, in a plain and practical way, what the amateur should know about photography at home and its possibilities for the enlivening of the dull days or long winter evenings. It has always seemed strange to me that, among the hundreds of books published for photographers, there should be less than half-a-dozen dealing with photography as a home craft. Amateur portraiture, photography by artificial light, the photographing of interiors, still life and subject pictures, flowers and fruit, copying and enlarging, printing on fabrics and the making of photo enamels on china ware, with the innumerable applications of photography in decoration; all these are essentially home arts, and well within the capabilities of the average amateur equipment. Hence this attempt to make a little book about some of them.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE HOME AND ITS POSSIBILITIES

CHAPTER II THE QUESTION OF ILLUMINATION

CHAPTER III HOME INTERIORS BY DAYLIGHT

CHAPTER IV INTERIORS BY GASLIGHT AND FLASHLIGHT

CHAPTER V HOME PORTRAITURE BY DAYLIGHT

CHAPTER VI HOME PORTRAITS BY FLASHLIGHT

CHAPTER VII FLOWER PHOTOGRAPHY

CHAPTER VIII ENLARGING AT HOME-DAYLIGHT

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