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One obviously excellent use for Flexichrome is in the production of expensive color portraits. The Flexichrome process has the advantage that it permits the photographer to make a number of black and white exposures in the ordinary manner and at the ordinary film cost, then have the selected negative carefully retouched before the print is made, resulting in a much more flattering picture than a straight portrait shot on regular color transparency film. Ordinarily, color retouching by any of the other processes can be done only by an expert and at great cost.

The art of Romney displays a certain fitfulness of achievement due partly to the instability of his character, and partly to his defective early training. His defects of technique are most apparent in his historical and imaginative subjects; it is only when we examine his portraits, and especially his female portraits, that we find- that beauty of form and subtle charm of color which place him among the greatest portrait painters of the 18th century.

Then, if you turn out good portraits of the teachers, you should have every chance of landing the job of doing the portraits of the seniors and juniors for the yearbook. Whenever you do a set of portraits which are to be used together, whether for a school yearbook or any other kind oftion time, when you shoot all the groups with your 8 x 10 Camera and sell dozens of prints from every shot. Every club, every class, every team from bowling to badminton, should be the subject of one of your group pictures, and every picture should pay a handsome return.