218 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



as caught they should be placed in a live car 

 and kept in the water, in the shade, until wanted, 

 when they can be removed with a landing-net. 



In handling the fish always use the greatest 

 care not to hold them too tightly or rub off any 

 of their scales, which, in many species, is a very 

 easy thing to do. Also, for your own comfort, 

 take care that the sharp spines of the dorsal 

 fin do not stick into you, for, with some species, 

 these are somewhat poisonous, and the wound 

 made by them is always more or less painful. 

 Many of the forms of jellyfish are poisonous 

 to the touch, causing a sensation to the skin as 

 though the hand had been brushed heavily with 

 nettles. 



Having caught the fish you want to photo- 

 graph, set up your aquarium and camera in 

 some place where the sunlight will fall directly 

 through the front glass of the aquarium. Put 

 in your water and accessories, and in arranging 

 the latter, too much care cannot be used, as the 

 setting must be as natural as possible, and upon 

 it depends much of the success of the picture. 

 As I have already said, most of these accessories 

 should be placed back of and close to the par- 

 tition glass, with only a very few in the compart- 

 ment in which you are going to place the fish. 

 Now select the specimen upon which you are 

 going to make your first exposure, and lift him 



