File: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 (1902) (14563334620).jpg

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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
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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ey should be photographed without unne-cessary delay in a cool place free from draughts. Forsome flowers the damp box is much better thanwater. Any ordinary wooden or tin box will an-swer if it is lined with thoroughly damp materialsuch as paper, felt, or cloth, and covered over with awet towel. If a flower is very full blown this is thebest way to preserve it overnight. Flowers to bephotographed may either be cut or pulled up withcomplete roots. For pictorial efi^ect the former isthe better, but of course if the roots are shown theportrait of the flower is more perfect and certainlymore interesting, but it is also more diflicult to ar-range. One way to overcome the difliculty is to layit on a piece of clean glass and photograph directlydown on it. The background is of course placed atsome distance from the glass; care must be taken toavoid the reflection on the glass. Another way is topin the plant to a vertical background with verysmall pins, which must be arranged so that they will
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PRINT.KD OKNTIAX. PHOTOGRAPHINC; TKKKS. Kl C. 12^^ not be seen. Either ot these methods ni;i\ he ap-pHed to cut flowers and leaves, hut the former methodis much the more satisfactory. A useful arrangement for cut flowers is a soft-wood board several inches wide attached so that itmay be set at any angle; flowers, or branches offlowers, leaves, or fruit, may be fastened to this bymeans of fine nails or steel pins. A piece of wetabsorbent cotton wrapped around the stem will keepthe flower fresh for a suflicient length ot time. Anordinary well-lighted room will answer for a studio,but of course a top light is an advantage. An abun-dance of light is almost essential so that the exposuremay be as short as possible. How sensitive flowersare to the slightest vibration will be discovered beforemany pictures have been made ; with some flowersa door banging in any part of the house will causethem to tremble violently, and even a person walk-ing across the floor in another room will aflect them.

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