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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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h the sky for a back-ground, good results may be obtained, provided themagnification is not too great. From my experience4 diameters is about the limit for instantaneous expo-sures when the positive element is a very rapid lens.Where birds are among trees or bushes the telephotois not so satisfactory. The increased exposure madenecessary by the scarcity and greenness of the lightpractically prevents the photographing of such aquick-moving object as a bird. There are excep-tions, of course, as, for example, the whippoorwill,or even the ruffed grouse, which will occasionallysit motionless for the required time; but the smallerbirds are ever on the move, so that even out in theopen it requires a rapid lens and good light to insurea sharply defined photograph that shows any amountof detail. In places where water-fowl abound, as, forinstance, in Florida, the possibilities are almost unlim-ited ; owing to the brilliancy of the light, even dur-ing the winter months, the telephoto lens may be
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YOUNG FLICKERS.The white tips of the bills show where the hardening is taking place. PHOTOGRAPHING NESTS AND F.GGS 6; used with the greatest possible advantage. Ducks ofmany species can be photographed if a bhnd of grassand bushes is made in a convenient situation. It isbest to select a place that is frequented by the birdseither for the purpose of feeding or resting. In cer-tain pools, or bends in a river, the birds will be seennearly every day at certain hours. In such places pho-tographs may be secured with scarcely any difficulty.Of all the places I have seen, Florida is the countrvpar excellence for the photographer of water-fowl.The numerous rivers, the secluded cypress ponds,the open marshes, or the sea-coast, all offer facilitiesfor the work that are perhaps unexcelled in any otherState. The birds are very plentiful and remarkablytame, except in places where fiends in the guise ofmen spend their time on the bows of the riversteamers, armed to the teeth with shot-gun and rifle,

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