Photographing Wild Game 



directly upon them. This, while a matter of 

 indifference to the hunter, is fatal to photo- 

 graphic success in this brilliant rarefied air, 

 as it is almost impossible to get the details 

 of any objects in the shadow without very 

 much over-developing the high lights. 



During the past season I found the elk 

 very much wilder. They seemed to haunt 

 the heavy timber, and to go to their wallows 

 early in the morning or late in the evening, 

 being scarcely ever seen in the open. I 

 believe I should have succeeded much bet- 

 ter had I waited till a month later, when 

 the heavy snows would have driven them 

 out of the higher country, as at that time 

 they move in the daytime, and feed more 

 in the open where the sun has bared the 

 ground. 



The game-photographer should always de- 

 velop his own negatives, since the whole 

 development is devoted to bringing out the 

 details of the animals, regardless of the sur- 

 rounding picture ; and as these are so small, 

 and blend so remarkably with the surround- 

 ing objects, the ordinary photographer is 

 almost sure to overlook them. 



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