. 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 . hrather than too little. CHAPTER II PHOTOGRAPHING BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS PART I NESTS CONTAINING EGGS Outfit required.— Long-focus camera. Ordinary lens, the longer thefocal length the better. Plate-holders. Dark cloth (not rubber).Isochromatic plates. Tripod with fourfold telescopic legs and extraextension legs, attachable. Ball-and-socket camera attachment. Smallmirror. White reflecting-cloth. Pair pruners. Lock-saw. Climb-
. 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 . hrather than too little. CHAPTER II PHOTOGRAPHING BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS PART I NESTS CONTAINING EGGS Outfit required.— Long-focus camera. Ordinary lens, the longer thefocal length the better. Plate-holders. Dark cloth (not rubber).Isochromatic plates. Tripod with fourfold telescopic legs and extraextension legs, attachable. Ball-and-socket camera attachment. Smallmirror. White reflecting-cloth. Pair pruners. Lock-saw. Climb-ing-irons. Armed with this apparently elaborate outfit, we willbegin with what may perhaps be considered one ofthe most simple branches of natural-history photog-raphy. Photographing a nest, though not difficultexcept in certain peculiar cases, calls for a consider-able degree of artistic sense, for so much dependson the composition of the subject and on thelighting. A nest properly lighted makes a beauti-ful picture, one that calls for the admiration of all whosee it. But look at a photograph of the same nesttaken without the slightest regard to the lighting, 22. c 3 V -3 3 K a z S ■y; -J - .=i ~ 3 •^ S ^ 2 O i U -J c - C u 9> u *-*$o a P oa PHOTOGRAPHING NESTS AND EGGS 23 and it is absolutely uninteresting, at any rate from apictorial point of view. Another thing to be bornein mind is the arranging of the surroundings. It isfrequently necessary to remove some of the smallbranches and leaves that the nest may be seen to bet-ter advantage. In doing this the greatest care mustbe observed. The cutting away of much of the sur-rounding vegetation would leave the nest is therefore advisable to resort to tying back thebranches that form the principal obstruction, cuttingaway only the smaller twigs or leaves. Dont breakthese twigs, for in doing so you are very apt to shakethe nest, and perhaps loosen it from its , such as those used in prunin
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