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Dollars A Shot: Some photographers develop test negatives before they'll move the tripod after a shot. They know full well the many factors which might go out of balance to spoil an important shot. And you should mull these things over, too, before you promise rush delivery of a picture, no matter how simple.
Suppose the publisher of a trade journal in the poultry field, or one of his advertisers, needs a picture of a hen surrounded by a flock of chicks. To hire a photographer to shoot such a picture might cost him fifty or a hundred dollars and involve weeks of delay. He could buy the same shot from stock, from a picture agency or a photographer who specializes on poultry, for five or ten dollars and get the print immediately.But there is a growing tendency to include a figure somewhere in the room, but not too conspicuously even though the subject may be the owner of Do you know that one good shot of a harvest scene, of a pig eating corn, of a rooster crowing, or of scores of other commonplace situations on a farm, can be sold over and over again, dozens of times, and net the photographer from ten to a hundred dollars every time it is sold? Numerous magazines cater to farmers; in addition, every large calendar publisher puts a high priority on rural pictures, at several hundred dollars a shot for color, for his photography schedule every year.
In the shot put a heavy metal sphere is propelled from a circle seven feet in diameter; four feet of its circumference—in the forepart of the circle—contains a toeboard four inches high. In this event the shot is not allowed to pass behind or below the shoulder, so that technically it is "put" rather than "thrown." A 16-pound shot is used in major masculine competition, such as in the Olympic Games, national championships, and intercollegiate competition; the 12-pound shot is usually used by males in secondary schools, and the 8-pound shot is used in feminine competition, including the Olympic Games. In the games the shot put is also one of the 10 decathlon events for men. A put of over 65 feet has been made with the 16-pound shot, and a woman has exceeded 56 feet with the 8-pound shot. |
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