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A Bug's Eye View: A Beginner's Guide to Insect Macro Photography | Photzy. A Bug’s Eye View: A Beginner’s Guide to Insect Macro Photography. NOTE: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and viewing offline. Click here to download it for free. Leanne Cleaveley. Save for later. Picture a lazy summer day.
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- Order The Insects from A Sustainable Source
- Clean Them Without Breaking Them
- Rehydrate The Insect For Flexibility
- Get The Insect Into Position Using “Pinning”
- Take A Whole Bunch of Photos
- Combine The Images with Photo Stacking Software
- Clean and Adjust The Insect (Again) Digitally
- Send It to The Printer!
The first of many questions that I usually get is where do I get all of these bugs to photograph? The short answer is I buy them online. And no, I don’t mean the dark web. Selling insects online is a legitimate full-time business for some people just like anything else. I’d like to point out that all of the insects I photograph are raised from ethi...
If people aren’t already concerned about my mental health when I tell them I buy dead insects online, this next step usually does it. The insects arrive tightly wrapped to small cards using cellophane, and I carefully remove the packaging to inspect them. They usually look fairly clean to the naked eye, but if you were to scale them up to 40 times ...
In the hobby, this is what’s referred to as a “relaxation chamber”. It’s basically any container with high humidity that’s used to rehydrate the insects. When the insects arrive they are dry, very brittle, break easily, and impossible to adjust into a more desirable position. Hydration solves this problem (though they’re still extremely delicate). ...
Positioning the insect uses a process that entomologists call pinning or spreading. While the bug is hydrated and malleable, it is laid on a styrofoam block and small pins are strategically placed around it to hold the arms, legs, and other body parts in a desirable position. For these types of prints, trying to make the insect look as symmetrical ...
One of the great things about macro photography is that it doesn’t have to take up a ton of space. I live in a studio apartment and my entire setup fits along my kitchen bar top. The challenge, though, is that when taking photographs at such close distances, only a little slice of each photo is actually in focus. Since I want the entire bug to be i...
How do I go about combining hundreds of photos? Thankfully it’s not a manual process, and there are several programs that help automate this. I can’t imagine how long something like this would take otherwise, if it would even be possible. I’ve found that the stacking software works great 98% of the time, but there are still manual tweaks and revisi...
This step is where things really get tedious (in case you didn’t think this was tedious enough already). It’s also the most time-consuming part of the process. If everything has gone according to plan, we now have a large, detailed, and in-focus image. I’ll usually start by making any final adjustments to body part positions to make it as symmetric...
That sums up the “making of” portion of these prints. The entire process to this point may take anywhere from 10 to 20 hours per specimen. That doesn’t include the countless hours I spent researching and learning, with plenty of failed attempts along the way (I easily took tens of thousands of photos before arriving at my first image I finally thou...
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Mar 13, 2013 · Wrap your eyes around these stunning shots of insects sporting what look like mini funky shades. Photographer Ireneusz Waldzik, who shot the highly detailed macro images, says: "I love macro photography, I spend a lot of time at it and the colors and different shapes of insects eyes fascinates me.
Aug 9, 2021 · Photographer Jimmy Mc Donnell shares how he goes about shooting macro photographs of insects in the field against beautiful bokeh.
Bitten by the Macro Bug: Getting Started in Insect Photography | Photzy. NOTE: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and viewing offline. Click here to download it for free. Lynne Guenther. Save for later. It’s hot, the sun is beating on your face, sweat is rolling into your eyes, did you just swallow a gnat?
Jun 30, 2016 · Get down, look at the eyes of the insect and then search for the best angle. Try to find an unconventional angle, so you can give the picture a touch of your vision. And look around – what is behind the insect?
Mar 11, 2014 · 5. Close down your aperture and shoot in full sun. Macro shots need a lot of light. You need to shoot as closed down as you can because of the narrow DOF. Bugs are no exception. In order to capture all of the details, shoot in the full sun with a closed down app and a high SS.
