Anthony's photographic bulletin for .. . nable one tostep elose up to the bars, and to take a snap shot at the pacing beastbefore it is aware of ones presence. The great difficulty in photographing wild animals, especially thosethat are at liberty, is to get near enough to them to secure a good pict-ure, and this is a difficulty that is obviated by the use of a tele-photolens. On more than one occasion, while I was preparing the illustra-tions for this article, a tele-photo lens would have been of the greatestusefulness to me, and I would advise every one who proposes to photo-graph wild anima
Anthony's photographic bulletin for .. . nable one tostep elose up to the bars, and to take a snap shot at the pacing beastbefore it is aware of ones presence. The great difficulty in photographing wild animals, especially thosethat are at liberty, is to get near enough to them to secure a good pict-ure, and this is a difficulty that is obviated by the use of a tele-photolens. On more than one occasion, while I was preparing the illustra-tions for this article, a tele-photo lens would have been of the greatestusefulness to me, and I would advise every one who proposes to photo-graph wild animals, especially in their habitat, to provide himself withone. Ordinarily, a good rapid rectilinear lens will do. A detectivecamera is preferable to a tripod instrument, for obvious reasons, butoccasionally the latter will be of use. The pose of the animal to be photographed is of importance ; itshould be natural. If it is in any way constrained, the resulting picturewill not be a success. It will take patience to get the animal in a good. position, or to wait until it assumes a suitable pose, but, as I said at theoutset, if the photographer does not possess this necessary qualificationfor the work, he will not succeed in it. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wallihan, of Lay, Colo., have made a greatreputation in this department of the art-science by photographing thewild animals of the West in their natural abodes. I do not know howthey secure such uniformly good results, but should not be surprised tohear that they use a tele-photo lens. A Pittsburgh amateur, whosename I have forgotten, managed to get a number of good pho-tographs of wild beasts in an ingenious manner. He connected appa-ratus with his camera which, when stepped upon by an animal at night,set off flashlight and snapped the shutter at the same time. This clevercontrivance was set up in the woods at nightfall, like a trap, and notinfrequently the image of a wild animal was on the sensitive plate inthe morning. Photographs secur
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