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Negative And Marked: 5. Never be too proud to reshoot a poor negative and marked. Did you make an error in exposure? Did your tripod slip and cause a fuzzy negative and marked? 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 negative and marked 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 negative and marked 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 negative and marked. A single print from this negative and marked 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 negative and marked and visualize what can be done with that negative and marked by enlargement. |
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