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Enlargements Of Portrait Negatives: Many Camera stores, of course, already offer their customers enlargements of portrait negatives and may not want to do any business with you. Some of them may be dissatisfied with the work they are selling, if it is farmed out on contract, and you may, by showing fine examples of your own work, win the store's enlargement business away from the big plant which ordinarily does it.
Your angle in bidding for enlargements of portrait negatives against the big plants is, first, that you'll do better work, and second, that you can get the work done faster. Speed may be a big inducement if you live in a community from which negatives are mailed long distances to a large plant.However, although a long focal length lens is mandatory, it need not be expensive. The utmost of critical sharpness in a portrait lens is not necessary, or even desired, since considerable diffusion can be tolerated in portrait negatives. Your lens needn't be in a shutter for strictly studio portraits, either. A lens in barrel is perfectly satisfactory, since you can provide yourself with a simple Packard shutter to use behind the lens. Many portrait men actually prefer the Packard to the more costly between-the-lens shutters.
There are two commonly accepted methods of submitting picture stories. One way is to number all the negatives in their margins, then contact print them, gang-printing as many negatives as you can on a sheet of 8 x 10 paper (cut a strip of 120 film, for instance, into three strips of four negatives each or into four strips of three negatives each and print them all together, or print four 4x5 negatives together) and then send all the contact prints, along with the text-block material and the caption information, to the editor. The editor will thereupon decide which pictures he wishes to use and either ask you for the negatives or have you supply him with 8 x 10 glossy prints. |
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