I think, in those days, they mainly used specially built or adapted sunlit
studios with reflectors. Safer, cheaper, and less smelly. Check their
subjects' pupils.
tOM
On Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 19:20, John A. Lind
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] To improve, take more photos.. but to im" saying:
> ROFL about the flash powder!
> BTW, flash bulbs were invented in 1929 and it took a while for them to
> come into widespread use. Early flashbulbs had a bad habit of
> occasionally exploding. Makes me wonder which posed more danger: flash
> powder or flashbulbs. I knew this for some time before it finally sank
> in the studio shots of my grandparents and my father when he was very
> young *had* to have been made using flash powder. Imagine a two-year
> old reacting to flash powder being ignited; probably got one shot at it.
> One of them is my grandparents' wedding photograph. It was very common
> prior to WWII for the *only* wedding photograph to be a studio portrait
> of the bride and groom (in wedding dress and suit). Going to a
> photography studio in that era must have been quite an affair, rather
> dramatic, and not without its hazards. Could be one of several reasons
> people didn't have portraits made that often; akin to visiting a fireworks
> test facility. <g>
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