250 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



Cut flowers must always be photographed in- 

 doors. It is necessary to get as clear a photo- 

 graph with as sharp an outline and as much 

 detail as is possible, in order that it shall have 

 any value; and as the least movement on the 



part of the plant 

 during exposure 

 will completely ruin 

 this, it is obvious 

 that the work must 

 be done where there 

 is absolutely no air 

 stirring. Therefore 

 work in the open 

 is here out of the 

 question. 



As the exposure 

 is, necessarily, long, 

 movement on the 

 part of the plant is, 

 under any circum- 

 stances, one of the 

 chief difficulties, but 

 by working indoors the chances for movement 

 are naturally lessened materially. It is often the 

 case, however, that a plant will voluntarily change 

 its position during the exposure, perhaps imper- 

 ceptibly to the eye, but sufficiently to utterly de- 

 stroy all sharpness of detail and make the negative 



Jack-in-pulpit. 



