[pure-silver] Remove Dark Slide Before Commencing Artistic Career

Dear Mark and Speedy,

Ahh, the glorious art that has flashed briefly on the front side of a dark slide....the unrepeatable moments that have had to be repeated ten seconds later ...

Nothing to the wonderful compositions and glorious tones that have been burned into the emulsion of a piece of film between the time that you draw the dark slide and the time that you discover that you did not close the shutter after viewing through the ground glass. Actually, this has lead to some of the nicest semi-abstract work I own.

Recently I did a Cleopatra shoot and ended up with the death of C, asp and all. It was a rubber snake held to a real bosom, but I made the classic error of pulling the darkslide on an open shutter, shooting, realising my error, and then re-triggered the flash anyway. And then flipped the holder and did it the right way.

The result was much the same - Cleo and her snake lay so still that there was no motion blur - the only difference in the exposures was the burn-in effect of the modelling lights. The heavy blue gel effect from one set of lights was entirely cancelled by this. It actually looked very nice.

Uncle Dick

PS: As Cleopatra tried on the costume in the studio she turned around to me and asked " Does this dress make my asp look big?" 


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