Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — Suggestions to Those Who Contemplate Having Their Photographer Make Picture [ARTICLE]

Suggestions to Those Who Contemplate Having Their Photographer Make Picture

There is more in getting a photograph than simply going to a photographer. He must know -his business and yon must know yours, otherwise the result will be likeness that is neither flattering nor truthful. If you are short and stout, advises an authority, don't ask the poor prtist to make a picture of you full length. He will- if you insist, hut fie knows he is doing a great wrong thereby. Nothing is so graceful and pleasing in a picture of a stout lady as a sitting at half-length, the figure so turned as to hide’ the stoutness. Again, if you are slim and angular, do not for an instant forget that a fulllength figure will make you appear more slim and angular. Then the pretty bust picture is your only hope, and you should insist on having none TrtJier. If a gentleman has a very long neck —no matter how nicely he looks In a high collar—his picture, if taken In such a high affajr, would look grotesque. A short neck and high collar, and long neck and a low turned-down collar, by all means. No loud stripes, no great checks,- no striking figures Should be worn in a photograph. One'thing bear in mind when you visit the studio —bring along your home expression. Don't spend two days before you come to the studio practicing poses and different expressions before your mirrpY, and. lastly, give the photographer the benefit of exercising his artistic arid professional ability. , ■. '’' '