Why did you need to hide under a blanket like object when taking pictures using an old school camera?
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With a traditional SLR style camera, the photographer composes the image by looking through the viewfinder of the camera, where they see the image as seen through the cameras lens.
Traditional view cameras don’t have a viewfinder, what they use instead is a ground glass plate – this is slotted into the camera where it forms the back of the body. The cameras lens then projects the image it sees onto this glass plate which the photographer can look say to frame and focus the camera correctly.
To take a photo, the ground glass plate is removed and a holder containing a piece of film is put in its place and a photo can be taken.
The reason for the cloth covering is that the images you see on the ground glass is very dim and quite hard to see in bright light. By covering yourself with the cloth you block out the light behind you which makes it easier to see the image.
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