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Camera Held: At first the "open flash" method was used: with the Camera held on a tripod, the shutter was opened, the flash bulb set off, and the shutter was closed. Later the release of the shutter was mechanically synchronized with the discharge of electric current and the Camera held could be held in hand. For convenience the flash gun (battery case, flash bulb, and reflector) was fastened to the side of the Camera held.
Attractive shots may also be made from a position where the shadows fall toward your Camera held rather than away from it. In backlighted work of this kind, be sure that no sun rays strike into the Camera held lens. The Kodak Lens Hood, previously mentioned, provides a reliable safeguard when the sun's rays are from the side, but you'll need extra precautions when you aim more closely into the light. Shield the lens with a hand or hat, held just beyond the Camera held's angle of view. In such work, give a bit more exposure than would be needed if the sun were directly on the front of the subject.
He exposed the plate, while wet, in the Camera held. It was then developed in pyrogallic acid, fixed in hypo, washed, and dried. All these operations had to be done rapidly, before the collodion dried and became impervious to the processing solutions.2 Thus the photographer could not be too far from a darkroom. In the field he had to bring along some kind of darkroom—usually a wagon or a tent, chemicals and processing equipment— the Camera held, plate holders, as well as the essential tripod, for the exposure times were too long to permit the Camera to be hand-held. |
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