202 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



this necessary, for it, too, tends to scare away the 

 butterfly. 



Of course, the use of the reflex camera makes 

 all this preliminary arrangement unnecessary, and 

 we can by its aid obtain many pictures that 

 would be impossible with the ordinary outfit. 

 Moreover it allows us to work quicker and thus 

 make more exposures in a certain length of time, 

 thereby giving another example of the advantage 

 of using this type of camera. 



I would not advocate the use of the telephoto 

 lens in this work, although it may be used to 

 advantage occasionally; but an insect is so much 

 more easily approached than are any other of the 

 wild things that I consider the use of this lens in 

 this connection unnecessary. 



Always wait, before releasing the shutter, until 

 the wings of the butterfly, if it is a butterfly that 

 you are photographing, are at rest, for there is no 

 shutter made, with the possible exception of the 

 focal plane, that will work fast enough to entirely 

 stop action in the fluttering of a butterfly's wings. 

 The fast orthochromatic plates should always be 

 used, as they reproduce the color values of the 

 insect and flower almost to perfection. 



All the appliances of the entomologist will 

 come in handy for the insect photographer. It 

 will frequently be found necessary to use the net, 

 and many interesting subjects can be captured by 



