Know your camera : an orange filter created dramatic quality

This photograph of a parked DC-3 twin-engined airliner demonstrates the effect of an orange filter used with the camera lens. A ground crew man stands on a ladder near the left engine. He tots a hose from a fuel truck. Another man sits on the wing between the engine and the fuselage.

Publication date: 1939-08-20

Size: 12.4 x 15.3 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• Airplane engines--1930-1940
• Douglas Aircraft Company--Products--1930-1940
• Douglas DC-3 (Transport plane)
• Hoses--1930-1940
• Monoplanes--American--1930-1940
• Photography--1930-1940
• Transport planes--American--1930-1940
• Trucks--1930-1940
• Ladders--1930-1940
• Ground crew--1930-1940

Genre(s):

• Photographs

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (August 20, 1939), p. 9

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• Fenner, Frank, Jr.