Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — TRICK PHOTOGRAPHS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRICK PHOTOGRAPHS.

AU Sorts of Amusing Things Can Ba Done with Photographic Prints. One can do all sorts of things with photographic prints if one only knows how. .Look, for example, at the pictures of trick photographs taken from an article by Dorothy Forester in the Girls* Realm. This is what the author writes about her methods: “One'of the simplest and I find best methods to work upon is, in the first

place, to select a good title. By a good title I mean some well-known phrase or term where the play upon the words Is easy and the picture obvious. For instance, an old head on young shoulders, represented by the head of an old lady of 80 printed onto the body of a child of 6. This changing of heads is the simplest yet one of the most amusing of the effects that can be produced by composite photography and is obtained quite easily by marking the

plates in printing. * It may be as well to explain for the benefit of those who as yet know nothing of the mysteries of this branch of the photographic art what the marking process is. And I cannot, I think, do better than give a photograph as an illustration of this method. “Take, /or instance, the one I suggested, ‘an old head on young shoulders.* First print the figure of the child, carefully blocking out the head and the peck line by covering It with

paper of the exact shape. Then take the negative of the old lady and block out everything but her head, and put this upon the body of the child. Of course, this must be done with great care and the joining of the two photographs softened in order to leave no hard lines. You should also generally retouch the whole picture. After some practice in doing this you will find that with the exercise of a little thought and ingenuity almost any part of a photograph can be altered, pieces of it taken away and bits added here and there, until hardly anything of the original remains.” ■ ' ■

“WE MUST GIVE THIS LADY A VEBT NICE BOW.”

MOT THE EFFECT THEY INTENDED TO PRODUCE.

A STARTLING GAMS. OF BALL.