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Perfect In Color:
Professor Lippmann has shown me slides of still-life subjects by projection, that were as perfect in color as in an ordinary glass-positive in the rendering of the image in monochrome. The rendering of white tones was astonishing, and a slide made by one of the Lumiere brothers, at a time when they were trying to make the process commercially possible, a slide of a girl in a plaid dress on a brilliant sunlit lawn, was simply dazzling, and one would have to go to a good Renoir to find its equal in color luminosity.They'll buy both black-and-white and color pictures, but the big payoff is for color transparencies. One hundred dollars a shot is not the top. Color transparencies should be at least 4x5, and should be offered in both horizontal and vertical compositions. For further details on selling pictures for calendar illustrations, see Chapter. If you could find a model farm in your community, owned by a highly progressive farmer who has a good looking wife and a beautiful daughter in her teens and a small boy—of course this would be too much, but let's dream a while—if you could find just such a setup, you would have discovered just about the perfect Happy Hunting Ground for pictures. tricky that they can't send out just any apprentice to do the job. Second, the best time to shoot displays is at night, when the big photo company has to pay both the cameraman and his assistant overtime rates. Third, the job often calls for only one shot. Fourth, the order often calls for only one or two prints.
Q Select the paint color for the background and paint the walls. Next, choose the color for your top coat. If you are working with an oil-based eggshell paint you will need to thin it (3 parts top color to 1 part mineral spirits). Choose a top coat color that is either close in tone or contrasts with your Wall color. With dry-brushing, you can cover the background color completely, so your top coat is the color you will see on your finished walls.
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