ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20000, 16 July 1920, Page 2

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

The question of plates for interiors is a. very debatable one. .Some workers nso the very fastest they can get, and score, in the reduction of exposures; hut a, fast plate cannot have the same latitude of exposure as a slow one. The practical result of this is that the contrasts in an interior view are olteu well within the range of a slow plate, but quite beyond one of the taster brands. When using a fast plate the high-lights are hopelessly over-exposed before the shadow detail has had a chance of impressing itself, uitli a, slow plate both high-light and shadow may bo rendered on one plate by a careful exposure and development, oelf-scrceii ortho’ plates are an advantage in many cases, and it writer in the ‘ British Journal of Photography ” would choose a slow brand of this type. Whatever plates are used, thov must bn backed. .Halation is usually coupled with windows, but. it will bo found in every well-lit. interior negative; if no windows are shown it will not show much, but ifc will degrade the nelicato gradations in the high-lights, jhe difference is often very marked indeed, and it is a good idea to ’make a practical tost of this. The result wil be, more convincing than pages of writing can he.