CHAPTER VII 



PHOTOGRAPHING TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS, ETC. 



PART I 



TREES, FLOWERS, FERNS, LEAVES, AND GRASSES IN THEIR 

 NATURAL SURROUNDINGS 



Outfit required. Long-focus camera with swing-back and back focus. 

 Fairly long-focus lens which need not of necessity be very rapid. 

 Shutter, focal plane by preference. Focussing-cloth. Plate-holder. 

 Tripod, one of ordinary height and one that will allow of the camera 

 being placed within twelve inches of the ground. Isochromatic plates, 

 slow and instantaneous. Ray-filter. Cloth screen to shield plant' from 

 wind. Pair of pruners. 



IN the foregoing chapters on photographing fish, 

 birds, and other animal life, it will have been noticed 

 that one of the things most necessary for the com- 

 plete outfit is a plentiful supply of patience. Now, 

 strange as it may seem, photographing growing flow- 

 ers also requires a fair share of patience far more 

 than one would imagine. On an ordinary calm day, 

 when to the casual observer the trees and flowers are 

 absolutely motionless, it will be noticed that there is 



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