Image: Pictures of bird life - on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh (1903) (14749897362)

Description: Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches) Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Lodge, R. B Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: at I was not dangerous, and I made a series of exposureseventually at a distance of not more than two yards in theopen, without any attempt at concealment, Tlie cock ^^asin this case nnich the bolder, contrary to my usualexperience. So tame did he get, that eventually he Mouldcome and sit, just in front of the camera, on differenttwigs stuck in the ground for the purpose; and I finishedup by photograj^hing him as he sat on the handle-bar ofmy bicycle. For these photographs I used the latest development ofcamera for this work—vh. a tele-photo lens and a shortreflecting camera, mounted on a gun-stock. This is amuch handier weapon tlian a camera on a tripod infollowing a bird about in its movements from place toplace and from twig to twig. AMien using the tripodin photographing a moving object at short distance, thereadiest way is to place the jioint of one tripod leg—tlieback one—on the toe of your boot. Then, by moving yourfoot backwards and forwards, the camera can be raised and Text Appearing After Image: Blue Iit (Pants cwnikiis) and Eluer-stump containing Nest 70 Pictures of Bird Life lowered Avith greater ease and speed, and with less noiseand risk of slipping, and it leaves you a hand free. This alone is agreat ad^an-tage. I eouldoften find ause for threeor four hands,and a spareeye or twowould be use-ful. 3Ianipu-lating a whole-plate cameraup a tree, forinstance, oron a Ion gladder, is Acryoften an awk-ward l)it ofwork, and,singlc-lianded,may \ery welltake over an hours hard laboiu- before you can get satisfactorily focussed.To obtain the pliotograpli of tlie Spotted Flycatchers neston page 87, the spike of one leg of the tripod rested on Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Pictures of bird life - on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh (1903) (14749897362)
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