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

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Chapter VII H O M E S T U F P V^yHE MOST GENERAL USe for the amateur camera has been, and will continue to he, the securing of pictures of the family itself, especially the children, and the pets and the intimate records which will be a source of entertainment today, to be preserved as priceless treasures in later years. These subjects close to home arc1 akin to those which most people have taken in kodak pictures and are the kind of subjects which are likely to be filmed casually, and without due regard to a few of the elements which can make them excellent pictures of lasting value. The same hints which you have observed regarding composition, exposure and lighting will be applicable to this type of picture-making, but Avhat will be of additional value to your pictures of family life will be the securing of naturalness and interesting and typical action. Every picture should tell a story. That is a terse bit of advice1 which applies to all picture-making, but which is especially pertinent to home movies and intimate subjects of people, and one which is quite easily overlooked in the tendency to shoot haphazardly whenever in the mood for using the camera. By telling a story it doesn't necessarily mean making a connected narrative of a whole rend or more, but it means that in each subject photographed, even if it is only a twentyfoot individual scene, that picture should tell a story. For example, the photograph of the little boy fishing, seen on page 50, though just a single still shot, has a real story to it. You can make it up as you study the picture, but you will quickly [ 49 1