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- 
exposed 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, 
which corresponds with the blocked-out fish on the 
fish 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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