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Title: The complete aquarium book; the care and breeding of goldfish and tropical fishes
Identifier: completeaquarium00inne (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
Authors: Innes, William T. (William Thornton), 1874-1969
Subjects: Aquariums; Goldfish
Publisher: New York, Halcyon house
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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134 PHOTOGRAPHING FISHES absorbs much of the light, so that only bright days should be used. The angle of the sun at noon is a little too much overhead to strike fully on the side of the fish, although this can be remedied and the speed much increased by the use of a reflecting mirror in addition to the direct sun. This sometimes makes a beautiful effect on a silvery fish. Our photo- graphs of Pterophyllum scalare, Trichogaster trichopterus and the Banded Sunfish were done in this way. When a black background is wanted, procure the darkest medium obtainable and construct a shade above it, so as to cast a shadow on the background itself. Nothing seems to be sufficiently black if the sun strikes directly on it. The water should be as free from particles as possible, particularly when using a dark background. It is desirable to cover the camera with black velvet to prevent reflections in the aquarium. Some operators use flashlights, but to the writer nothing seems as good as direct sun, preferably from April to September, although it was outdoors in February, with the sun glaring on recently fallen snow, that the author made his best photograph of a goldfish—the frontispiece of the present edition. In photographing down through the top of an aquarium it is neces- sary to suspend a glass at the surface, so that the bottom of it is wet and the top dry. This obviates blurring caused by refraction due to ripples. Where clear waters prevail in nature there is no doubt that fine photographs of the natural bottoms of the shallower bodies of water can be made through a glass-bottom aquarium, slightly submerged in the water.
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Fig. 112. Photographing Arrangement The distance between aquarium and background should be sufficient to prevent a shadow falling on background. The aquarium is raised so that the board below will be out of the picture.

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