SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18412, 19 June 1925, Page 15

SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

SESSIONS AT CHORAL HALL. The first session of the Eastman School of Professional Photography was heldi at the Choral Hall yesterday, and was well attended by photographers, both professional and amateur, from all parts of New Zealand. Mr W. Van der Velden, senior demonstrator for. Kodak, Photography, Ltd., gave a talk on the use of Australian-made printing papera, Pearl, Yitava, and portrait bromide, organisation, and chemicals. The speaker explained how the best results might bo obtained by the simplest and best technical methods. A collection of prints, showing good and faulty technique, was used to illustrate the lecture. A fine display is staged at tho hall of tho portrait work of English and American professional photographers, and also a large collection of the most modern in studio apparatus for the -pioduction of those photographs. Last owning there was another large attendance, when the first half of an industrial film, J2 reels in length, was shown, in conjunction with explanatory comments by Mr Van der Velden Tho film dealt exhaustively with studio and laboratory work, and demonstrated the successful running of a modern studio and the latest in laboratory methods. A complete studio was built, decorated, furnished, and equipped! for this special purpose, and a great number of models, carefully selected, have been photographed to give an idea of how such subjects can best be handled. Everything is shown—office, saleroom, camera room, darkroom, printing, enlarging and' finishing rooms. A number of slides were also shown. A good deal of space in tho film is devoted to demonstrations of artificial lighting, showing the use of spot and flood lights, and the suitability of various forms of natural and artificial arrangements. During the evening a flashlight photograph was taken of the audience, and a small orchestra accompanied the screening of the film with selections. , v To-day, the second day of the school, a chat on the uso of the Kodak portrait film, time and labour-saving appliances, demonstration of the use of the Eastman projection printer, panchromatic films and plates will be given, and in the evening tho second half of the industrial film and a number of idides will- be shown.