Photography At Home Tennant

Photography At Home Tennant

Author: J. A. Tennant

Year: 1911

Photography at Home (1911) by J. A. Tennant is a practical guide to amateur photography in the home and domestic environment. Written for the early twentieth-century photographer, it covers indoor illumination, home portraiture, flower photography, copying prints and daguerreotypes, enlarging by daylight and artificial light, photographic printing processes, and other applications of photography as a household craft. The book places particular emphasis on working with available light, understanding exposure, and making effective photographs indoors. It also contains contemporary discussions of exposure meters and actinometers, including instructions for constructing a simple photographic actinometer using bromide paper sensitized with potassium nitrite. Rich in practical advice and period photographic techniques, the work provides valuable insight into amateur photographic practice in the years immediately before the First World War.