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Title: Nature and the camera; how to photograph live birds and their nests; animals, wild and tame; reptiles; insects; fish and other aquatic forms; flowers, trees, and fungi
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dugmore, Arthur Radclyffe, 1870-
Subjects: Nature photography
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
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hanging and at the sametime adding much to the beauty of the fish. I onlytell this to show how much depends on knowingwhat to expect from a fish in the way of colour. Donot photograph a fish until you know what it shouldlook like when it is at its best; otherwise the photo-graph, though true to life, will be misleading. This colour-changing is not, so far as I know,noticeable with fresh-water fishes. At least, none thatI have photographed has shown it except to a verylimited degree. Nor is it to be found among thelight-coloured surface fish, such as the mullet, mack-erel, pompano, and jacks. These, having colours thatare more or less transparent and iridescent, of blue,green, and silver, colours which render the fish incon-spicuous, do not need the variety of colours and mark-ings by which the bottom fish are protected. Thesebottom fish, whose home is among the brilliantly col-oured vegetation, require colours as bright as their sur-roundings, that they may not be easily discovered by
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1-1 8> ft o — es _: c PHOTOGRAPHING IISH in their innumerable enemies. It seems very difficultfor us to realise that the wonJertul colouring of thevarious kinds of angel-fish should be a means of pro-tection, but that such is the case is scarcely to bedoubted. When photographing any fish that jumps it willbe found necessary to place either a piece ot glass orwet cheese-cloth (wet because it is more transparent)on the top of the aquarium; otherwise they will leapout, even though the sides are several inches abovethe surface of the water. In arranging the backgrounds for fish, their beautymay be greatly enhanced and additional interest begiven by using such examples of sea life as wouldbe found with the fish if it were in its natural home.Sea-anemones, crabs, urchins, and any of the variousshell-fish add life and value to the picture. But donot use any kind that give off coloured liquids, suchas the squids, sea-pigeons, etc. In handling fish of any kind, more particularly thecatfis

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