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Lunch atop a Skyscraper: is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932. The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above New York City. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932 and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction. Ebbets was a well known photographer and had work published in the major newspapers across the nation including the New York Times. His photographs were featured in the Miami Daily News, National Geographic, Outdoors Unlimited, Field & Stream, Popular Boating, U.S. Camera, Outdoor Life, Look Magazine, Popular Photography

Aperture: measured as f-number, which controls the amount of light passing through the lens. Aperture also has an effect on focus and depth of field, namely, the smaller the opening [aperture] the less light but the greater the depth of field - that is, the greater the range within which objects appear to be sharply focused.  

Shutter speed: the speed (in fractions of seconds) that controls the amount of time during which the subject is exposed to light. Shutter speed may be used to control the amount of light striking the image plane; 'faster' shutter speeds (that is, those of shorter duration) decrease both the amount of light and the amount of image blurring from subject motion or camera motion.

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Ruth Harriet Louise (Born Ruth Goldstein) January 13, 1903 - 1940 was an American professional photographer, the first woman photographer active in Hollywood; she ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. When Louise was hired as chief portrait photographer in the summer of 1925, she was twenty-two years old. In a career that lasted from only five years, Louise photographed all the stars, contract players, and many of the hopefuls who passed through the studio's front gates, including Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer and  Joan Crawford (seen above) and many more Hollywood actors of the 1930s.  It has been estimated that Ruth Louise took more than 100,000 photos during her tenure at MGM and considered equal to George Hurrell the renowned glamour photographer of the era. Glamour Girls

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