For  instance,  I  watched  a  clever  young  chap  of  my  acquaintance  make  an
outdoor  portrait  at  high  noon  in  the  country.  All  experienced  photographers
know  that  noon  gives  the  harshest  light  and  that  being  directly  overhead,  the
sun  casts  the  smallest  shadows,  and  the  worst — from  a  facial  standpoint — of
any  time  of  day.
The  photographer  in  question  had  a  young  girl  for  a  sitter  who  wore  a  hat
with  a  wide  opaque  brim.  The  only  way  to  light  her  face  under  that  hat  brim,
in  the  surroundings  he  wished  to  use  for  a  background,  was  apparently  to  ask
her  to  look  for  an  aeroplane  or  lie  down  on  her  back  and  stare  at  the  sky.
Neither  appealed  as  being  pretty  poses.     So  the  photographer  led  his  sitter  to


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the  stream  which  flowed  through  the  open  fields,  and  had  her  stoop  down  on  a
rock  and  dabble  her  fingers  in  the  water.  By  making  use  of  what  slight  angle
of  sun's  rays  there  were,  he  managed  to  get  a  negative  in  which  the  apparently
shaded  face  was  very  softly  lighted  by  reflection  of  the  sunlight  upwards  from
the  sparkling  water.  The  result  was  all  that  could  be  wished  for  in  soft  model-
ing, and  combined  the  charm  of  the  simple  and  unexpected  with  the  delights
of  having  done  a  difficult  job  in  a  natural  and  clever  way.
