Museum Photography:Diverse Tools For Diverse Needs

摘要

"The Great Swamp was a treat,"observed one of the photographers from the American Museum of Natural History's photo studio after returning from a trip to photograph this New Jersey marshland."Nothing Like slogging around in chest waders and dodging mosquitoes (unsuccessfully,I might add) for four hours in really nice-srnelling swamp water," he quipped.As part of a project to photograph aquatic vegetation for an upcoming exhibit,this intrepid photographer had to step outside the famiLiar studio environment,which happens on occasion.Some assignments have taken members of the photo studio to such exotic locations as Indonesia,Hawaii,and Africa to document scientists working and collecting samples for the museum.