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Dime A Negative: Few photographers have either the time or the ability to do their own retouching, and so must farm it out to professional retouchers and hope for the best. Some photographers who don't appreciate the value of fine retouching will accept the cheapest job they can get, sometimes priced as low as a dime a negative. And believe it or not, the retouchers can make a profit at this rate, spending only a minute or so on each negative.5. Never be too proud to reshoot a poor negative. Did you make an error in exposure? Did your tripod slip and cause a fuzzy negative? 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 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 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. A single print from this negative 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. |
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