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Single Picture To: For instance, your editor might want to run a picture layout rather than a single picture to shot. Or you might sell pictures of the same story to more than one newspaper. Perhaps the question of ethics comes to your mind at this suggestion. As freelancing practice has worked out, it would be considered unprofessional to sell exactly the same picture to competing newspapers but unless you have an exclusive agreement with a certain editor he should not blame you for selling similar pictures wherever you can find buyers.
He would have needed a huge studio and many models to take this picture with a single picture to negative. Instead, he enlisted the services of a troupe of strolling players and photographed them in groups at scales appropriate to the distance at which they were to appear from the spectator. On other negatives he photographed models of the stage. He made thirty negatives in all, which he masked so they would fit together like a picture puzzle. Then, painstakingly masking a sheet of sensitized paper to match each negative in turn, he printed them one after the other in the appropriate positions.
Any good photographer will soon work out standard Lighting plans and exposure and development constants, so that catalog technique becomes a routine which produces good pictures almost automatically.
All-in-all, catalog photography can hardly be considered exciting, but a few catalog accounts can provide an excellent bread-and-butter basis for anyone.
I was awakened in the small hours of the morning several years ago by a telephone call from a man who wanted to pay me a hundred dollars to come and take one picture of a beautiful woman, just one simple single picture to-flash picture. Perhaps you can guess why this picture, which he could ordinarily have got someone to take for five or ten dollars, was so important to him that he offered a hundred. It was because the beautiful woman was his estranged wife, from whom he was seeking a divorce, and she was at that tune in a compromising situation. |
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