Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer (1933)

February 15th, 1933 th! amateur photographer ^ 6 CINEMATOGRAPHER o Eveiy week an article will appear under this heading dealing with a topic of interest to the novice in photography. INTERIOR SUBJECTS. IN dealing briefly with interior work 1 have been wander¬ ing over a wide range of subjects,' more b\ suggestion than by a large number of examples. This is because the subject of interior work is itself a wide and varied one. It includes far more than the type of thing shown in the Antwerp interior below. This, bv the wav, was taken with a hand camera, propped on the back of a chair, and I had to rely on the usual silly little finder, and to do a certain amount of guessing. Although 1 usetl the rising front 1 did not go quite far 1 4 enough. There is too much foreground, and the pediment of the altar could have done with more space above it. The verticals are none too correct, either. The medley of chairs is one of the frecjuent and annoving drawbacks of such subjects. .\s I said earlier, it is almost essential to be able to arrange and study these interiors, whether ecclesiastical or secular, on a focussing screen, and to seek carefully for effective \-iewpoints. You may be sure that the architect, if his work is worth attention at all, has provided them in plenty. The Rochester Castle record was taken with a half-plate stand camera, but I have also photographed it just as easily with a hand camera, as the keepds roofless, and the subject is similar to an exterior one. Scmre cloisters are sufficiently well lighted for hand exposures. They come on the borderland between e.xteriors and interiors. In the Keep, Rochester Castle. High Altar, Antwerp Cathedral. 146