Studio Light Incorporating The Aristo Eagle - The Artura Bulletin 1913 | by Aristo Motto
The Christmas business has been greater than ever before - more photographers have been advertising than ever before, and more people have been having pictures made. They have been reminded by almost every magazine they have looked over for Christmas suggestions that photographs make very desirable presents and that there is a photographer in their town. Naturally, the photographer who advertised got the bulk of this business.
| Title | Studio Light Incorporating The Aristo Eagle - The Artura Bulletin 1913 |
| Author | Aristo Motto |
| Publisher | Aristo Motto |
| Year | 1913 |
| Copyright | 1913, |
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Studio Light Incorporating The Aristo Eagle. The Artura Bulletin. January 1913 Vol. 4 No. 11. Keep It Up- The Christmas business has been greater than ever before - more photographers have been advertising than ever before, and more people have been having pictures made. They have been reminded by almost ...
- Copying Stunts
- Most every photographer has at some time during his business career had a customer make a request which seemed unreasonable or at least so difficult that it was not worth considering. Of course it is ...
- Decidedly Different
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- The Program
- First Day 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Plates. Exposure. Developing Agents and Developing. Dark Room, Skylight and Skylight Room. Lighting and Posing of Subjects from the Audience. 11:30-12:00 A.M. Business ...
- On Business Courage By The Office Boy
- I bot the reception room girl's sister a neer diamon' wring for Krismuss an' a weak affter she quit me for the grocery delivery boy. Kurrs hiz kowardly hart. An' I only pade the second installment a...
- Lantern Slide Making
- To make lantern slides is no more difficult than to make copies, the only practical difference being that a lantern slide is made from a negative by transmitted light whereas a copy is made from a pri...
- January. Practical Suggestions, Ideas That Have Been Tried By Photographers And Found To Be Useful
- In loading plates into a holder, of course you always go over the surface of the plate with a camel's hair brush to remove any particles of dust. If the brush is tin bound, there is danger of scratchi...
- February 1913 Vol. 4 No. 12. Get The Business
- Advertise that you are the photographer in your town and people will come to know you will point you out as Smith, the Photographer. When they see your work, they will remember you, and when they see ...
- Better Results - More Business
- Every photographer who has any occasion to do work of a commercial nature, runs across a snag sooner or later in the form of reflections. And there's another snag that is often found right alongside o...
- February. Our Illustrations
- Our readers will no doubt be glad of the opportunity of studying the series of illustrations which we are permitted to reproduce from the work of Mr. Charles F. Townsend, of Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Tow...
- More Profit
- Yes, we had a rattling good business during December couldn't have been better in fact, unless we had been able to make some enlargements, but we didn't have the room nor the time to bother with the...
- Getting Into The Harness
- At the call of the president, Chas. F. Townsend, the Executive Committee of the P. A. of A. met at the Baltimore Hotel in Kansas City, on January 6th. President Townsend appointed his committees and ...
- February. Practical Suggestions, Ideas That Have Been Tried By Photographers And Found To Be Useful
- A very effective method used by some photographers for holding back the shadows in printing from a negative that is not technically perfect, is as follows: Work up a small chunk of putty until it is ...
- March 1913 Vol. 5 No. 1. More Business Enlarged Advertising Campaign For Professional Photographers
- 6,460,000 copies. That is the accepted circulation per issue of the magazines that, beginning with April, will carry the photographer-in-your-town advertising. It isn't a big list of magazines, bu...
- Are You Overlooking Opportunities
- There is a greater demand every day for the specialist - for the man who does one or two things better than others in the same general line of business. You have met them and had need for their servic...
- More Light-Shorter Exposures-Better Results
- It is understood that a photographic skylight is a large opening in the side of a studio, covered with glass to keep out the weather and at the same time, let in the light. It is also understood that ...
- Hypo-Acid Toning Bath For Artura Iris
- Develop the Iris prints in a developer compounded in accordance with the formula to be found in the direction sheet enclosed in each package of Iris, using one drop of Saturated Solution of Bromide of...
- On Adversity By The Office Boy
- The reception room girls sister wantz me 2 B her bes' feller agane but she kant git the dia-niDii wring I gaiv her bak frum the grocery feller wot she let talk it when she quit me for him. She wantz ...
- March. Practical Suggestions, Ideas That Have Been Tried By Photographers And Found To Be Useful
- A photographer in a small town, who believes in advertising, makes a lantern slide each month from the advertisement on page 5 of Studio Light. He has had small slips of paper printed, which read: Jo...
- April 1913 Vol. 5 No. 2. It's Pulling Enlarged Advertising Campaign
- The log of apathy is moving and a good, strong, all-together pull will place it clear of the path. Millions of copies of your advertising in the biggest and best magazines could not help making a sti...
- Kansas City, 1913
- The Kansas City Convention which is booked for the week of July 21st, is to be a memorable one. It will be an educational convention, with enough entertainment introduced to make a well balanced week....
- Kodak Advertising Contest, 1913 - $3,000.00 In Cash Prizes
- The 1913 Kodak Advertising Contest offers a greater incentive for effort on the part of the professional photographer than ever before, and should bring out the very best of talent. As in the 1911 Con...
- Kodak Advertising Contest, 1913 - $3,000.00 In Cash Prizes. Continued
- Note - Blank forms will be furnished on application. *9 All entries should be addressed to Eastman Kodak Company, Advertising Department, Rochester, N. Y. 10 In sending pictures, mark the package pl...
- Your Reception Room
- Every photographer has something to sell and the place where he makes his sales is his Reception Room. Naturally it should be such as will avoid offending any of his customers, or if some people are b...
- A Pretty Experiment With Hypo
- The extreme solubility of this salt is too well-known, as is also the cold produced when it is dissolved: one pound dissolved in two of boiling water will give a solution that is merely lukewarm, the ...
- On Responsibility By The Office Boy
- The Boss haz gone away 2 re-kooperait, an' I am karryin' the hole wait ov the bizzyness on my shoulderz. I think the Boss sed the dokk-tor sed he had konjested frek-kelz, anny how he had 2 go away fo...
- April. Practical Suggestions, Ideas That Have Been Tried By Photographers And Found To Be Useful
- I notice in the January Studio Light you tell the photographer to brush plates with a camel hair brush before loading holders. This used to be done in England until the English manufacturers told the ...
- May 1913 Vol. 5 No. 3. Crackers Vs. Photographs
- It took hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of advertising to get the public into the habit of buying crackers in original packages instead of from the grocer's cracker barrel, but the demand for ...
- May. Our Illustrations
- The firm of Knaffl & Brake-bill, successors to the old and well-known firm of Knaffl Bros., has a wide reputation for the production of very fine portraits. And that the reputation is well deserved wi...
- The Cincinnati School
- Owing to recent floods in the Mississippi Valley and the crippled condition of all lines of transportation, it was not possible for the Eastman Professional School, with the large amount of apparatus ...
- Convention News
- The plans for the thirty-third convention of the National Photographers' Association to be held in Kansas City, July 21st to the 26th inclusive, are progressing nicely. The 1913 Convention will be on...
- Some Comparisons By The Office Boy
- The Boss has got a new autymobilly, and he says itz a rattling good car. This one's got a self starter on it - I remember the first won the Boss had, it had a self stopper an' he yused to get oute an...
- Good Work At Good Prices
- The price that should be asked for commercial work seems to depend more on competition than quality of work, if we are to believe what a great many people tell us. We don't think this is true in all c...
- Good Work At Good Prices. Continued
- Where you see a way of improving your work, don't use it as a means of taking business away from your competitors, but as a means of putting dollars in your own pocket. Your competitor will finally to...
- June 1913 Vol. 5 No. 4. Knee-Deep In June
- Nature is clothed in a fresh new dress of green, the Spring openings are most all over and Summer with all its attending pleasures is here again. There are new styles, to be sure, and we must have th...
- June Advertising How To Make More Business Fall Your Way
- If two people set about to cut down a tree, one doesn't begin chopping a foot from the ground and the other three feet above. They take opposite sides and chop on the same line and the tree falls in h...
- F & S Professional Printer
- The F. & S. Professional Printer will appeal to the professional photographer, because of its very simple construction, positive action, and the practical conveniences which it embodies. The fact that...
- Convention Of The Photographers' Association Of Canada
- The Executive of the Photographers' Association of Canada have decided to hold their convention on Wednesday and Thurs-day, July 9th and 10th, 1913, in the rooms of the Toronto Camera Club, No. 2 Goul...
- Good Publicity
- A live photographer has made the suggestion that there is an excellent opportunity for the use of lantern slides in studio advertising at the motion picture theatres - this advertising to be used as a...
- On Symptoms By The Office Boy
- I ain't bin phelin' wel lattely an' wuz wunderin' if I wuz goin' in2 a deekline but ma says she ain't knoticed me deeklinnin' anny thing in the way of etes. The Boss says that' long aboute this time ...
- June. Our Illustrations
- Nearly everyone's ability, artistic or otherwise, develops most naturally along some one particular line, and if full play is given to this natural aptitude for doing one thing better than another, th...
- New Printing Mask
- As will be seen by our illustration, the Eastman Mask Chart, which is printed on opaque mask paper, makes it possible for the photographer to cut a mask of any size within the dimensions of 8 x 10 inc...
- July 1913 Vol. 5 No. 5. A Good Looking Negative Or A Good Looking Print, Which?
- There are several advantages in developing with Pyro, that many photographers have lost sight of, since developing papers have come to be more generally used, and in getting away from Pyro the printin...
- July Advertising A New Series Of Cuts For Your Use
- The other man's business, whether he be a photographer or not, is an indicator by which you can judge your own. And if the competing photographer's business, as well as your own, has been poor and oth...
- That Sherman Suit An Interview With Mr. Eastman
- Although, by reason of the fact that the market in professional photographic goods has been wide open since 1911, the professional photographers are not directly interested in the action brought again...
- Kansas City, July 21 St To 26th
- The illustrated folder which has just been sent out by the P. A. of A. gives such a complete idea of all the good things that are in store for the visitor to the Kansas City National Convention, that ...
- Eastman Loose Leaf Studio Register
- The many advantages of the loose leaf style of books for office use are so well known that it is not necessary for us to dwell on them in announcing the new Eastman Loose Leaf Studio Register. It con...
- On Experience By The Office Boy
- I ain't so sure aboute goin' 2 Kantzis City az I wuz. I bot a revolliver 2 shute Indians with, an' tride it oute on the side ov Pa's barn. I mist the barn an' plugged a whoal in the cide of the grene...
- A Good Business Man
- It is our privilege to show our readers the work of another prominent Kansas photographer, the illustrations in this number of Studio Light being from the studio of Mr. H. R. Pottenger of Wichita. Mr...
- August 1913 Vol. 5 No. 6. Please Them All
- Ever have a lady come into your studio with an obstreperous child, probably order half a dozen moderate priced pictures and give you so much trouble and take so much of your time that you felt you had...
- Keep The Emulsion Hard
- Smith and Brown both used the same kind of plates, but when the hot season struck them, Smith began to have plate trouble, while Brown had none. Same kind of plates and same kind of weather, to be sur...
- Truth In Advertising
- The Associated Advertising Clubs of America recently held a great convention in Baltimore, and the slogan of that convention was TRUTH. Advertising has come to be such a great factor in business th...
- On Profiting By Experience By The Office Boy
- Las' munth mi sister had a girl visitin' her an' she wuz sum peech. When they wuz a givin' oute good looks she wuz the first one at the kounter. She had a kumplexion that maid pechez and kreme looke ...
- The Long And Short Of Gradation
- The best plate for photographic portraiture is the one which is capable of rendering the greatest number of tones, and which, when properly exposed and developed, has registered every tone of light an...
- A Danger Signal Milky Fixing Baths
- Many photographers have trouble during the warm summer months, with milky fixing baths, and as a good reputation may be very easily damaged by turning out a few prints of inferior quality, it is well ...
- August. Practical Suggestions, Ideas That Have Been Tried By Photographers And Found To Be Useful
- If you wish a small print from a negative for a locket or watch, it is not necessary to make a print and a negative, as some have been accustomed to doing. Instead, make the reduced print in the camer...
- September 1913 Vol. 5 No. 7. Kansas City Convention. Association To Have Paid Secretary
- The Kansas City Convention of the P. A. of A. has taken its place in convention history as one of the most interesting and novel meetings ever held by the Association. While the attendance was not as...
- Artura Red Tones
- The beautiful Artura Red Tones which elicited such favorable comment at the recent National Convention may be secured on Artura prints by the following method, with but very little trouble. A few prec...
- Eastman Portrait Films
- There is something really new in photography. Eastman Portrait Films are not merely a satisfactory substitute for glass plates - they are a superior innovation. As one of our biggest photographers,...
- September. Our Illustrations
- Mr. C. H. Wiebmer of St. Paul, Minn., was one of the first photographers in the Northwest to realize the possibilities of home portraiture and to make it a very important help to his studio business, ...
- Better Negative Quality. Result Of Exhaustive Experiments
- We have mentioned in previous articles on this subject, the necessity for securing in the negative as full a scale of gradation - as much roundness and brilliancy as one expects to secure in the print...
- On The Fitness Of Things By The Office Boy
- Me an' the Boss we Konvened at the Konvention at Kantzis Citty. The Boss says the naim of the town is D-rived frum 2 indian wurds meanin' hot and hilly, an' that they kall it Kantzis Citty B-kaus moa...
- Advertising Home A Portraiture
- There is a constantly increasing number of photographers conducting studios, who are becoming interested in home portraiture, and there is no question but that this branch of photographic work is to b...
- October 1913 Vol. 5 No. 8
- Be with the times, ahead of them if possible, but never behind. A photographer looked over the new apparatus shown at the Kansas City Convention and remarked that he had been following photography f...
- Make Business Good
- A Virginia photographer writes as follows: The 'There's a photographer in your town' advertising campaign you have been carrying on through the magazines throughout the country, and the great expens...
- Offsetting Of Finger Marks
- Finger marks are often very-useful in detecting criminals, but they have no advantages that we know of in the various photographic processes. Sometimes they lead to a solution of a certain difficulty,...
- October. Our Illustrations
- Through the courtesy of Mr. Wilfred E. Smith, of the Matzene Studio, Chicago, and a number of subjects whom he has recently photographed, we are pleased to illustrate the October number of Studio Ligh...
- How You Can Raise Your Standard Of Quality
- You know by experience that it isn't possible for a photographer to make a dozen or half a dozen perfect negatives of every sitting. Even the best operators miss it occasionally and quite often they m...
- On Salesmanship By The Office Boy
- Mean' the Boss wuztalkin' aboate the different kind of salesmen wot kums into the studio to sell things. Some of 'em iz slikker en greese an' sum only think they R. The Boss says the reely slik sales...
- Temperatures
- At this particular season of the year, watch the temperature of your developer, especially your plate developer. Of course temperatures should be correct at all times, but cold weather slips up on you...
- Some Interesting Expressions
- The Eastman Professional School is enjoying its most successful season and the demonstrations and lectures are the most interesting and complete that have ever been offered the photographer. Of course...
- November 1913 Vol. 5 No. 9
- It's time for a new display of work in that show-ease of yours. You want to interest as many people in your community as possible, in photographs for Christmas. A bright, new display of attractive wor...
- Where Are The Profits?
- Every good business man knows where his greatest profits come from, although a great amount of business is done without any actual profit. You may be doing work yourself which does not give you an act...
- Will It Pay?
- Many and various are the ways by which financial success is attained in business, and nearly every man has his own pet ideas on the subject, and believes that they alone, if properly carried out, will...
- Seed Plates
- show to the best advantage under the very conditions that would cause failure with another plate. They have speed enough and to spare without the slightest impairment of portrait quality. From An ...
- More Film Advantages. Modern Office Filing Equipment
- The quality and convenience of Eastman Portrait Film is coming to be more appreciated every day, and the number of professionals who are taking up the use of film in their regular work, is growing in ...
- Big Photography - Big Ideas - Big Methods
- Excerpts from an article by an advertising expert which appeared in the magazine, Advertising & Selling. An ad without a coupon! Without a key! Without a booklet in the background! Without a picture ...
- Just Chemicals
- Do you look upon the chemicals you use as just chemicals, without ever a thought of the part they play in producing the work on which you depend for bread and butter? Some photographers seem to thi...
- November. Portrait Series Of Cuts For Newspaper Advertising
- There's a photographer in your town This series of cuts is offered the photographer that he may use our copy with suitable illustrations for newspaper advertising. The logical way to direct the fo...
- December 1913 Vol. 5 No. 10
- May the year 1913 show a gratifying and profitable increase over the previous years of your photographic business. We wish every photographer a merry Christmas and an increasing]}' prosperous and happ...
- Attention To Details
- A photographer remarked to me the other day that good printers were few and far between these days. Having been a pretty good printer at one time myself, and having a soft spot in my heart for the pri...
- Weak Light
- There is an immutable law of cause and effect in the exposure and development of a plate, on which depends the quality of the negative. To be sure there is a certain flexibility to this law, but this ...
- Why Fresh Fixing Baths?
- Let's look into the matter of fixing baths and the chemical action that takes place in fixing a plate or print, and see how important the fixing bath really is. Proper fixing removes all the sensitiv...
- Preventing Grain In Enlarging
- Frequently it is necessary to do work on both the film and the glass sides of a negative in order to emphasize some quality or effect an improvement. It is customary to flow the glass side with a mat...
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