under-exposures

Updated: May 21, 2025

Here were patent gimcrack printing devices, although he had scarce anything worth printing; all sorts of atrocious fancy borders with which he sought in vain to embellish out-of-focus under-exposures; orthochromatic filters and colour screens with which he was eliminating undesirable rays, although the chief thing his negatives lacked was light of any kind.

Hudson Stuck - Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska