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Offers Picture -book: Britain is a nation of cities and offers picture -book picture-book specimens of most urban types and periods, from cathedral towns evolved as centers of rural life in the Middle Ages to the great industrial cities of the 19th century. Several are of international importance and are among the principal objectives of travel in Britain.
Other color processes are being developed which will open up new profit possibilities in virtually every one of the picture specialties covered in this book. One which is comparatively new and hardly exploited at all is the Flexichrome process, which makes it possible to produce a good color print from a black and white negative. In this process the colors are applied by hand but the final result bears no resemblance to the ordinary tinted picture. Rather the picture looks like a good color lithograph. Anyone who becomes an expert at making good Flexichrome prints probably could count on a number of years during which he would have little competition.
The best way to avoid cliches is to always try and see the familiar from an unusual angle. Some time ago I was in my dentist's chair looking at a set of large training teeth. It occurred to me that I might use them fora funny picture in a children's book on dentistry I was doing. I wanted a picture of the dentist working on teeth as seen from inside the throat, looking out over the tongue. I made a tongue out of Spam, covered the upper and lower plate with black cloth and got the dentist to drill one of the front teeth. Using a wide angle lens just behind the piece of fake tongue, I was able to photograph the dentist through the teeth. To my pleasant surprise, I got many letters from readers who had seen the picture in their books and wondered how I had done it. When the gas shortage hit, I did the same picture from inside, presumably, of a gas tank looking up the gas nozzle, past the rushing stream of gas. |
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