FISH PHOTOGRAPHY AT HOME 177 



take the scenic negative and put it in a printing frame ; 

 against the film side of this negative place the glass 

 side of the fish transparency, and finally against the film 

 side of the fish transparency (in contact with the fish 

 [that has been blocked out) place the film side of an un- 

 iexposed plate. Now give a full exposure and obtain a 

 somewhat muddy transparency of the scenic negative. 

 [This transparency will have a clear glass space upon it, 

 i which corresponds with the blocked-out fish on the 

 ifish transparency. 



Wash the colour off the fish transparency, and as 

 soon as the two transparencies are dry, bind them 

 together, accurately fitting the fish on the fish trans- 

 parency with the clear space on the scenic transparency. 

 When bound together, place them in a lantern and 

 make a single negative, combining the fish with a suit- 

 able aquatic scene. 



The photographs of the members of the salmon 

 family on the plate facing p. 46 may be taken as 

 examples of combining a fish with a suitable scene so 

 as to make a single print. The smelt was photographed 

 on the East Coast, the rainbow on a fish farm, the 

 brown trout in Scotland; the scenes in which they 

 appear were taken at home; 



The above may sound a complicated method of 

 obtaining fish photographs in a tank, but in reality it 

 is much the simplest, the most economical, and 

 usually gives the best results. In order to under- 

 stand the reason for this, I shall have briefly 



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