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For further stimulation of your imagination and of your ability to see picture story possibilities, refer to the chapter on magazine features in this book, which contains advice equally applicable to newspaper feature photography. You aren't likely to get rich doing newspaper feature pictures, but you'll have a lot of fun doing them and find the work wonderful training for the much more profitable field of magazine picture stories.

Have you noticed the repeated references to "sets" of pictures in this discussion of newspaper features? This is a highly important point. Every feature you ever do should be covered with at least three or four pictures, or more if they are necessary to tell the story. Many times, the sale of picture sets is easier than the sale of a single picture; also, they bring more profit on each story. When you get into magazine photography, you can expect to supply at least a dozen pictures and sometimes several times that many, for each story. We'll go into that more thoroughly in a later chapter, but it's something to keep in mind because every newspaper feature is a potential magazine feature at a much higher price.

Such, however, is not the case. It is true that magazine work has attracted some of the keenest, most sensitive and most capable cameramen of our time. Magazine photography can be the most spectacular, most varied, most challenging and most satisfying of endeavors. The true Camera artist can find more opportunity, more scope for his ability in magazine photography than elsewhere, and more appreciation for his success when he produces pictures which are out of the ordinary.