Camera secrets of Hollywood : simplified photography for the home picture maker (1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Camera secrets of Hollywood : simplified photography for the home picture maker
Date:
1931
Publisher:
Hollywood : Camera Secrets Publishing Company
Volume:
Camera secrets of Hollywood : simplified photography for the home picture maker
Leaf #:
00032
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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man's back; but by shooting directly into the sun the pictorial value is obtained even to the extent of picking up the atmosphere of the rollers coming in over an oily sea. The sunset effect in Scene 30, page 27, was secured by the use of a K3 filter which allowed the red clouds of the sunset to be caught on panchromatic film. As soon as the sun had dropped behind the horizon the cameraman removed the filter and photographed practically the same scene (Scene 31), in that manner catching the grayish clouds and obtaining a night effect. But here the operator made a slight error. Not realizing he had as much light as he did, he failed to stop down and we find that his resulting picture is several points lighter than the sunset picture. But that all comes under the head of experimentation. Even with the use of the filter it is often advisable to hide the source of the light — as for example in Scene 24, page 24, — behind some object in the picture. In this scene you notice the sun is hidden by a small tree on the right-hand side of the picture. Many weird results may be secured through the use of filters and after one becomes an adept at judging the proper filter to use he will be able to make pictures that contain an atmosphere of the most unusual and spectacular in nature. That's where lots of the fun and joy of photography comes in, and it's the pleasure of filming we're after, combined with the added sense of gratification in doing something better and better all the time. 2S