If you should suggest to any amateur photosrraDhers the idea of taking portra ts of children, you would find that instead of meeting the suggestion with enthusiasm, they would exhibit someMi ir, very much like panic, yet those who have made a practice of photographing children, say that not only are they morn attractive subjects for photography tl.-iti adults, but also they are quite as easy to manage and arrange if tney are i ightly handled; they are less conscious of tlir loo'is when in front of the camen. an ) t-'ar more naturally graceful and s-'i -.puiile, Prom 3 to 6 years is the hf-'st for picture taking, then little fdjk.s • in full of imagination and fancy, t hvy are as playful and unconscious as kittens. The most satisfactory place for making a picture of a child is at home, and that is where the amateur pholot.Mapbnr has an advantage over the professional. At the studio all the usual aivaugeti ents, and the fact that it is a strange place, makes it hard to get a natural, and impossible to get a lively or jolly portrait. The best results are ob taiiu d by the Kodak, for the roll films, developed in the Kodak Tank Develop in ' .Machine are in every way superior to those produced in the old way. Arc! then thuv.'s the great convenience of no dark being required. Everyone who photographs or is about to take up photography should at onae take advantage of the Imperial Camera Co.'s oiler; The Co. will send FREE of any charge whatever, a valuable illustrated book on photography, containing nearly 300 pages. This book is of tl'e greatest assistance to the amateur in the matter of detail?, advice etc., and also givesprices of all cameras and necessaries. SEN D TO.DAY for it. A postcard will bring it to you bv return mail, from the. Imperial Camera Co., 4>2 Willis-street, Wellington
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9996, 17 March 1910, Page 5
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319Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9996, 17 March 1910, Page 5
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