FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

趁玻璃还湿着

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

1851 · 相机

1851 年,阿彻公布了湿版火棉胶法。玻璃板涂好药膜后,必须趁湿曝光、趁湿显影。

药膜一干就失效,所以暗房总得跟着相机走,外出拍摄时常常要带上暗房帐篷。今天按一下快门就完成的事,当时是一连串赶时间的工序。

不妨试试

下次拍摄前,先选好站的位置和要用的光,再举起相机。把决定放在按快门之前,这个习惯今天也用得上,不需要重做旧工艺的化学步骤。

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

资料出处

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两张照片里的纵深

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横着走的电影胶片

故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

While the plate is wet

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

1851 · Camera

In 1851 Frederick Scott Archer published the wet collodion process. A coated glass plate had to be exposed and developed while it was still wet.

Once the coating dried it was useless, so the darkroom had to travel with the camera, often as a tent. What now takes one press of a button was then a race against time.

Try this

Before your next photograph, choose where to stand and which light to use, then raise the camera. Deciding before the shutter is a habit worth keeping; it needs none of the old chemistry.

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

Sources

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