Literary notes about halation (AI summary)
Halation is employed in literature both as a technical term related to photography and as a metaphorical device that connotes a dreamy, blurred quality. In discussions of photography, halation refers to the unwanted spread of light on negatives—a phenomenon that photographers counteract with non-halation plates or specific exposure techniques ([1], [2], [3]). Conversely, writers sometimes invoke halation to evoke an emotional haze or a sense of longing and incompleteness, imbuing scenes with a poetic, almost ephemeral atmosphere ([4], [5]).
- To take pictures of sunsets use a slow non-halation plate, a very small diaphragm, and an instantaneous exposure.
— from Harper's Round Table, December 10, 1895 by Various - Halation is the term used to denote the spreading of light beyond its proper place on the negative.
— from Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 by Various - To take a picture with the camera pointed toward the window use a non-halation plate and a small diaphragm.
— from Harper's Round Table, March 31, 1896 by Various - What was it that was responsible for that misty halation of incompleteness, longing?
— from Sally of Missouri by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young - Between Lida and the men who were circling the fire there was a veil of mist, and in the halation her champions loomed with heroic stature.
— from Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
