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Friday, October 18, 2013

Three Sisters


Somewhere in Japan

circa late 1930s

My mother (furthest right) said that her dad (I never met my grandfather) was an avid photographer. He had many cameras (probably German made?) and also a collapsible tripod. He would lug his photo equipment wherever they traveled throughout the country. Sadly, after he passed away during the war, the relatives on his side of the family "borrowed" his equipment and never returned them to my grandmother. 

The quality of this photo indicates that he probably was using a camera that was state-of-the-art during this time. He seemed quite knowledgeable about techniques too. A bright background would normally result in underexposure of foreground subjects, however he seemed to have compensated for that in this photo of his children. Perhaps he was following the Rule of Thirds too?
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