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Action Picture: From stopping the Action picture of life with the hand Camera to recreating Action picture by motion pictures was a logical progression. Sir John F. W. Herschel clearly foresaw the technique in 1860:
I take for granted nothing more than the possibility of taking a photograph, as it were, by a snap-shot—of securing a picture in a tenth of a second of time; and . . . that a mechanism is possible ... by which a prepared plate may be presented, focussed, impressed, displaced, numbered, secured in the dark, and replaced by another within two or three tenths of a second.29
He suggested that these plates be shown in a pbena-kistoscope—a well-known device for showing animated drawings, similar to the zoetrope used by Muybridge for demonstrating his sequence photographs of animals in motion.
Oddity isn't even necessary. Any good, sound method which any farmer has worked out for conquering one of the common problems of the farm is good for a how-to-do-it series of pictures, again with a little story to fill the explanatory details. Be sure to use the tricks of the picture-story specialists. Give your set of photos variety by mixing close-ups with medium and long shots, have people in pictures whenever possible for human interest, show Action picture, use a variety of viewpoints, look for possibilities of pictorial shots, and for chances to employ dramatic lighting. (For more suggestions on picture-story technique, and the details on where and how to submit to magazines, see Chapter .
The advantages to the buyer are obvious. Does it seem like a bad arrangement for the photographer? At first glance it might seem so, but when this same picture is sold over and over, perhaps fifty times in the course of years, the photographer eventually realizes a handsome total return for his effort in shooting the picture for stock sales.
That's why the stock picture photographer doesn't get rich quick, but enjoys a long-term income advantage for his work. Many a picture has earned, over a period of years, more than $1,000 in fees. |
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