Identifier: naturecamerahowt00dugm (find matches)
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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into the nest bymeans of a mirror. This light should be allowedto enter the nest only during a small part of thetime necessary for the exposure. For example, sup-posing your lens to be cut down to a very smallaperture, when the correct exposure would be perhapsforty seconds; then while the lens is open and theexposure taking place, allow the sunlight, reflectedfrom the mirror, to illuminate the interior of the nestfrom two to six seconds. Too much local illumina-tion destroys the effect of the depth of the nest andis therefore to be avoided. While using the mirror,keep it in constant motion, so that the light will bediffused. When photographing ground nests in open, wind-swept fields, it will sometimes be found necessary toplace a cloth screen around the nest (far enoughaway not to interfere with the picture) to protect itfrom the wind. Otherwise only a very short expo-sure can be given. Nests in Bushes and Trees.—Here we come tothe most satisfactory nests from a photographic stand-
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■fi ■f. a I > O PHOTOGRAPHING NESTS AND EGGS 27 point. The great variety of the nests themselvesand the endless variety of the surroundings offer fargreater possibilities than are to be found with theground nests. All that has been said in regard tosunlight holds good with these nests, a soft, diff^usedlight being in most cases the most effective. Whendirect sunlight is used it is a good plan to throw upa reflected white light that will soften the undershadows. This may easily.be done by taking a yardor two of white muslin and fastening a stick at eachend. The sticks should be pointed at one end, so thatthey may be put into the ground, and the cloth,tightly stretched, will be held at such an angle thatthe light will reflect from it upon the nest. A whitecloth placed on the ground beneath the nest willreflect more or less light, and will in some cases befound to answer the purpose. A difficulty that willbe the cause of frequent failures unless precautionsare taken is the moving

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