Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1881 — Getting Your Photograph. [ARTICLE]

Getting Your Photograph.

The best way to come is to come natural. That’s why actresses take such excellent pictures. They allow you to posture them as you please. If you twist a lady’s head she gets mad ; wlxile an actress will allow herself to be twisted and turned and poised and arranged as much as you please. Its a pleasure to take them, for you are always sure of a good picture. But deliver me from ministers! They are never satisfied. iThey are stiff and disagreeable, and their photos never suit. Ladies come in with their hair done up in the most outlandish styles, aud then complain and ask for another sitting, because their hair is not done the way they are accustomed to. As if we did up their hair ! Then, when we ask them to stand up a little, they complain, ‘I never’ stand up so straight; ’ and next day when they see the proof, they say, ‘ Oh ! how humpbacked you have made me. ’ Its no use to tell them you told them to stand straight; they only answer, ‘ I did not know I was stooping so. ’ No amount of retouching of the negative will straighten up these.”— Baltimore Photographer.