Focus And Frame: A tripod is advisable because it makes it possible for you to focus and frame the picture accurately. Thereafter you need only to check the ground glass occasionally to make sure the child has not swayed out of the picture frame. Your full attention can be kept directly on the subject. You can judge those all-important subtle expressions much more quickly and accurately when looking directly at the child's face than when viewing it on the groundglass.
She blundered her way through technique, resorting to any means to get desired effects. The blurred, out-of-focus images that many critics deplored were deliberate. She wrote to her friend Sir John Herschel that she hoped to elevate her art beyond
mere conventional topographic Photography-map making & skeleton rendering of feature & form without that roundness & fulness of force & feature that modelling of flesh & limb which the focus I use only can give tho' called & condemned as "out of focus'' What is focus-& who has a right to say what focus is the legitimate focus-My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real & ideal & sacrificing nothing of Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry & Beauty-,19.
This matter of equipment is highly important in the shooting of animal pictures, if you are to turn out consistently fine results with a minimum of effort. Few animals will pose quietly or hold still in one position for very long, so your problem is to frame and focus and shoot, without delay, at the instant when the animal looks his best. For this, the best available instrument is a 4 x 5 Graflex Super D Camera synchronized with speedlights.
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