Identifier: americanannualof1917newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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for scientific purposes or for preservation. ThenI make the best possible negative of it, and this often requiresall the skill the trained naturalist possesses, added to hisknowledge of technical photography. For museum and other collection purposes the preservationof butterflies is carried out along lines which have long beenfollowed by the professional lepidopterist, the specimens beingpainlessly killed, prepared according to certain rules, andspread out to dry on drying-boards, made especially for suchuses, being finally consigned in a classificatory way in trays orcases for reference. This, in brief, is the method of thebutterfly collector, and one of his prepared specimens hasmuch the appearance of the insect here shown in Figure i.For illustrative purposes, either plain or in colors, the correctphotography of such specimens is quite an art in itself. Some-times they are classified and beautifully grouped, as many ofthem appearing upon a single plate as their size will admit. 170
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Figure 1.A CORRECT WAY TO POSE A BUTTERFLY. These plates are generally very attractive, and extremely use-ful to the student of the subject as well as to the amateurcollector. Admirable examples of these may be seen in theplates illustrating the famous work of Dr. W. J. Holland,The Butterfly Book, now employed far and wide by butterflycollectors and experts. Here the aim has been not only to giveaccurate, colored reproductions of each species, natural size,but to arrange them on each plate, in a taxonomical way, so 171 as to have the whole attractive and at the same time presentan absence of all crowding, thus saving as much as possiblethe expense of reproduction. Whether made plain or in color,there are certain procedures to be carefully followed here inorder to obtain the best results. In the first place, the condition of lighting must be abso-lutely perfect, or immaculate backgrounds cannot be secured.The specimens should be accurately placed in the horizontalpikne, with the visual

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