Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 263, 4 November 1922 — Page 3

OTaMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGfiAM, RICHMOND, 1ND SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1922.

Christinas hot Always a Welcome Gift Arrange for Your Sitting Now to Avoid Disappointment Later 1

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i A Good " Portrait of You One that reflects your real personality will do more to bring the spirit of Xmas to your friends than any other . gift. ' .' ' : " . ' " . - ' - ' . ' Arrange for your sitting now and . consider your Xmas shopping completed. Phone 1830 " - -!' m

Rush Season for Photographers is Already on in Richmond. Wise Patrons Get an Early Start . V

Perhaps tie most rushing of all businesses at this time of the year is the photography business. Photographers axe becoming swamped with orders, and some are -working day and night. The reason for this rush of business is obvious. It is the holiday season. As the years advance, the public i3 beginning to realize more and more, that one of the best Ghristma3 Gifts possible is a photograph. It is inexpensive as compared to other gifts, and yet ii i3 something to be cherished. Photographers are now busily engaged in making 6itting3 and finishing up pictures. Christmas for the photographer Is like August for the seaside boarding houses and hotels the amount of business is more than can comfortably be handled. Everybody is better off if the , season is started earlier and the patrons are gradually beginning to learn. Professional photographers have every prospect, for their busiest year in history. Photography is a business of which everyone who knows enough to snap a camera shutter thinks he knows moro or less. However, it is a business that is mastered only after years of arduous labor and study. Good pictures are not taken and made in a minute. They take time lots of it. Sometimes they require a dozen or more sittings, and then there are times when it would be better had the sitter and the photographer more time. Therefore the advice of the photographers to do your photography shopping early, is both timely and wise. Every photographer specializes In some distinct branch of the work. Some devote more time to perfecting the likeness of the hair than others. In this connection one local photographer submits the following: ... - "Nothing in photography is more -capable of being artistically treated than the hair, and we have always noticed that there are less shortcoming in photographer art in this direction. Indeed we have fairly delighted our artistic perception in ; ; the contemplation of the studies made by the camera of beautifully disposed tresses which rival the production of Titian and the rest, in the rendition in the clear masses of shadow, the softness of high lights, the brilliant touches here and there, the innumerable gradua- ' tions of . tone, the show of the rich glossy' surface, the delicacy of texture, the. firmness, of finish and especially, the beautiful lines and ' rich sinuous curves. , No wonder , the women prize this wonderful gift ; of the gods. The glory of a woman is; indeed, in her hair, and she ; knows it, and the portrait photographer who neglects to study, its ' means and effect misses the most potent artistic factor, the great ac- " cessory to expression. And yet we : see portraits at times in which an envious looking- flood of light has , been allowed to obliterate the wealth of beauty so lavishly offered the artist." HUMOROUS SIDE OF PHOTOGRAPHY It happened at a dinner in honor of a number of famous artists and photographers. The conversation turned to art. Said one of them: "The other day I painted a deal board in imitation of marble with such accuracy that on being thrown into the water it immedately sank to the bottom." "Faugh!" said another, "Yesterday I hung my thermometer on the easel supporting my picture of the north pole. It fell at once twenty degrees below the freezing point." "That's nothing," remarked an experienced photographer, "my photograph of a prominent millionaire was so lifelike that it. had to be shaved twice a week." She "Tell me in plain terms what you think of my picture." He "Madam, to speak of your picture in plain terms is impossible."

THE CAMERA NEVER LIES An editor received this letter from a fresh youth: "Kindly tell me why a girl always closes her eyes when a fellow, kisses her." To which the editor replied: "If you will send us your photograph we may be able to tell you the reason." Puck. SHE TOOK THEM T don't know whether I like these pictures or not," said the . young woman. "They seem rather indistinct. "But you must remember, madam," said the wiley photographer, "that your face is not at all plain." Boston Transcript Uncle William received several photographs recently from home; among the lot was one of three children, on the back of which was written: . "These are not very good, but they are the best I have." Exchange.

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