. The American annual of photography. Distance of subject 2 yards. Heliar-Bijou-Reflex. 1/1000 second. Chickens InFlight. (4 Heliar.) This picture cannot be duplicated with a diaphragm shutter . at 2 yards distance. lllustraHng article The Focalplane Shutter and Its Aggressors, by A. L. Carets. i6q. TECHNICAL AND ARTISTIC BUTTERFLY PHOTOGRAPHY By DR. R. W. SHUFELDT, C. M. Z. S. OMETIMES it is an extremely easy matter tomake a good photograph of a Hving specimenof a butterfly, while again, upon the other hand,it may turn out to be one of the most difficultlittle tricks in the entire range of zo
. The American annual of photography. Distance of subject 2 yards. Heliar-Bijou-Reflex. 1/1000 second. Chickens InFlight. (4 Heliar.) This picture cannot be duplicated with a diaphragm shutter . at 2 yards distance. lllustraHng article The Focalplane Shutter and Its Aggressors, by A. L. Carets. i6q. TECHNICAL AND ARTISTIC BUTTERFLY PHOTOGRAPHY By DR. R. W. SHUFELDT, C. M. Z. S. OMETIMES it is an extremely easy matter tomake a good photograph of a Hving specimenof a butterfly, while again, upon the other hand,it may turn out to be one of the most difficultlittle tricks in the entire range of zoophotog-raphy. As a rule, it is the rarest exception to secure usefuland pleasing pictures of this kind when dead butterflies areselected as subjects; indeed, in many cases it proves to be moretrying to pose a dead and limp specimen than it is to go prop-erly to work and make an exposure upon a living one in oneof its natural attitudes. Personally, except in very few in-stances, I shun such material for my purpose and use onlygood, vigorous, and absolutely perfect butterflies. As I say,there are exceptions to this, as when one receives a dead speci-men of great rarity, and it is essential to preserve a photo-graph of it for scientific purposes or for preservation. ThenI make the best possibl
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