Plate 8:  Two different trial illuminations of a 1/32-scale miniature figure
(This plate added FEB 2004)

HE two photographs on this page were taken under different lighting conditions. Because the photographer's removable black setting for small displays had not yet been constructed, the miniature figure was posed on top of the slipcase for the dictionary seen in Plate 1, and the entire black matting board, seen in Plate 4, was positioned upright as a backdrop. --more--
This photograph, at 1.2 megapixel resolution, was illuminated by an everyday 60-watt bulb in the light fixture shown in Plate 6	This photograph, at 1.2 megapixel resolution, was illuminated by a 100-watt floodlamp in the light fixture shown in Plate 6
The figure, in cast metal, represents an officer of The Honorable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms during the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. The scale of the figure is 1/32; that is, the figure is one-thirty-second of the actual height of a six-foot man. This works out to a height of two and one-quarter inches from head to foot (without the helmet). See Plate 9 to see a cigarette card representing a similar subject. After a serious appraisal of both photographs, the collector and the photographer both agreed that they preferred the illumination provided by the 100-watt floodlamp. Go to top of page