Collecting Badges

Photographer

Photographer

Photographer product information

The Photographer Badge was part of the Collective series “Craftsman”

To earn this badge a scout must do the following * 

(1) Demonstrate his understanding of the mechanism of his camera, shutter, stops and focussing device.

(2) Make a pin-hole camera and show a photograph taken with it. 

(3) Show knowledge of fighting of indoor and outdoor subjects. 

(4) Diagnose common faults in composition, exposure, developing and fixing from specimens shown by the Examiner. 

(5) Take, develop and print with any camera: three portraits, three landscapes, three pictures from unusual angles (e.g., Scouter taken up a tree), and three photographs of buildings of different architectural styles.    

.*The Requirements for each badge varied through issues of POR