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Full Negative Area: This method will give you, contrary to a widely held belief, exactly the same perspective which you would have gained with a longer lens which covered the full negative with the same area you selected for enlargement. It is viewpoint, not the choice of lens, which determines the character of perspective.
At gross overexposure a negative will reverse to a positive. Direct exposure to the sun will often produce a transparent disc in the negative, which will appear in the print as menacingly black. Hence this reversal of tones is known as solarization. Because of this phenomenon the skies in wet-plate landscape negatives were not uniformly black, but had patches of low density that gave a mottled appearance to the print. Consequently they were generally retouched around the contours with opaque paint and the remaining sky area was protected with a paper mask.
Cartier-Bresson is able to seize the split second when the subject stands revealed in its most significant aspect and most evocative form. He finds the small Camera ideal for he can bring it into action almost at once, as "an extension of the eye." Far from relying upon accident, he composes through the finder, invariably using the full negative area. In his earlier work—he bought his first Leica in 1932—there is an emphasis on form, and a delight in capturing aspects of the ordinary, unseen in time and space by the ordinary eye. His interest in people became stronger. |
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