Item Name: Photography 1947 - 1953

Item ID: Photog-E2

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements March 1936 until June 1953

1. Show that he is thoroughly familiar with the essential parts of a camera and explain the purpose of each of the following: finder, lens, shutter, diaphragm opening, bellows, focusing scale.

2. Understand the basic principles of composition, selection of background and handling of light and shade.

3. Name the chemicals found in one standard developing solution and one fixing solution, and explain their purpose.

4. Submit six good-quality pictures taken, developed and printed by himself, putting into practice his knowledge of the principles in Requirement No. 2. (Not more than two pictures may be submitted from any one of the following groups, and the collection must include one from each group.)

GROUP A. Landscape or water pictures.
GROUP B. Groups of persons or street scenes.
GROUP C. Person, domestic animal or bird; wild animal or bird.
GROUP D. Architectural subjects.