Miniature Camera: The miniature Camera not only proved to be of great use to photojournalists, but it opened up new aesthetic possibilities. The ease with which the Camera could be handled freed the photographer to seek unusual view points and to record segments of the flow of life.
Dealers in building materials and manufacturers of home appliances will become customers for your pictures later,for advertising purposes, but not until you've progressed to the point where your work is appearing in the magazines and the home sections of newspapers. Then these buyers will come to you and pay you excellent rates. For that reason, keep the magazines in mind, and whenever you photograph a particularly striking home, let the editors see your pictures. Not only will the magazines add nobly to your income, but they'll give you also the best advertising you can get when they print your pictures.
Your equipment for this work must meet certain rigid standards but will not be as expensive as you might think. Your entire outfit can be bought for about the price of a good miniature. The view Camera is absolutely a must. No other Camera will do the job as well. The prime advantage of the view Camera for architectural work is its ability, through use of the rising front, and other movements, to make vertical lines register as parallels on the negative, rather than converging as they recede upward from the Camera level, the way they really do as seen by the eye. The various swings and tilts of the view Camera are a great convenience.
It is obvious, however, that photographs so lighted are far removed from naturalistic indoor pictures made with a wide-aperture lens on a miniature camera, in which we seem to be magically transported into the very presence of people and to be an onlooker of their activities along with the photographer.
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