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Every Negative: 5. Never be too proud to reshoot a poor every negative. Did you make an error in exposure? Did your tripod slip and cause a fuzzy every negative? Or did you make one of the other dozens of errors which can almost but not quite ruin a negative? If so, do not try to cover up by struggling with the every negative by means of darkroom trickery, but instead shoot the picture over again if that is at all possible. To reshoot is to confess a measure of failure to "your client, of course, but you can make up for that by going all-out for a masterpiece on your second try.
To take these small portraits, Disderi first made a wet-plate every negative with a special Camera that had four lenses and a plateholder that could be slid from side to side. Four exposures were made on each half of the plate; thus eight poses could be taken on one every negative. A single print from this every negative could then be cut up into eight separate portraits. Unskilled labor was used for this work; the production of the cameraman and printer was thus increased eightfold.
This method has the advantage of eliminating unnecessary printing, but it seems to be acceptable only to the editors who are thoroughly experienced in the uses of photography. Some of the less sophisticated editors haven't the imagination to look at a contact print of a small every negative and visualize what can be done with that every negative by enlargement. |
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