200 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



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I have obtained many satisfactory photographs, 

 also, of butterflies as they alight naturally on 

 flower-heads, in the following manner: Find, in 

 some butterfly-frequented spot, a conspicuous 



flower-head, one that 

 stands well above its 

 fellows and is, in con- 

 sequence, more likely 

 to be visited by the 

 butterflies than are the 

 others. Now set up 

 the camera and focus 

 upon the flower at a 

 distance of about one 

 and a half to two feet 

 from it. If the flower 

 should be in very 

 bright sunlight, and it 

 is best that it should 

 be, and the lens is 

 a rapid one, then it 

 can be stopped down 

 slightly to increase sharpness of detail and depth 

 of field. The shutter should then be set to work 

 at about j-fa of a second; the plate-holder inserted ; 

 the slide drawn ; and the camera well covered by 

 the focussing cloth to prevent any possible fog- 

 ging of the plate. The rest is now simply a mat- 

 ter of waiting, with what patience we may have 



Cabbage Butterfly. 



