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March 18, 2025
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June beetle.
Single shot:and a four-shot focus stack:
By the way, looking at its front, it seems that this specimen has had some unpleasant encounter...
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Impressive. Someday you'll have to tell us how you do it...
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Ants…
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a friend came around the other day as he has always wanted to see my studio/lab, i set him up with a live spider and his A1mk2 for a play, he was there all day and said it was the best fun shooting images he has ever had ( wildlife shooter), he said he knows why no one gets to see my setup, 8 years in the making and extremly simple and extremely complex at the same time, its like playing a fully manual video game with live subjects , kinda like going on an african safari at your desk, your shooting your subjects with your camera. I had a few weeks ago sony want to use my images but also wanted to see the setup. i rejected there advance, money cant buy what i have designed and once out there i will just be one on the masses. my mate said it makes his camera gear insignificant in the process of capturing the images. but only the latest cameras are part of the process of my machine. at the end we get to put the bugs back where i get them from. like shooting a model in my actual portrait studio but they are bugs. my setup ocupies 300mmx300mm space on my desk nothing like what i see posted by others.
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Someday, you'll have to tell us how you do it 😀
By the way, I know a few macro enthusiasts who reject extreme macro precisely because it is usually necessary to work with dead specimens... -
Next generation…
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i will post some videos which will give you an idea of the actual capture 😊the videos are very gruesome, definitely sends chills through your body.
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Cacyreus marshalli, geranium butterfly.
One of the things I like most about this image is that it was taken in a small urban flowerbed, in the middle of traffic... -
Baby Grasshopper.
Sony a6300, Nikon 200mm + 2xAchromatic Close-up Filters -
Chelicerae
Spider chelicerae are used to hold prey while the spider injects venom.
These are well highlighted on an exoskeleton.
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Damselflies, Mr&Mrs…
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Very colourful species!
Alas all our dragonflies / damselflies have disappeared for the winter... -
Connecting the dots... by simple.joy, on Flickr
Did I shutter? by simple.joy, on Flickr -
I see some bees with pollen all over them and maybe a few smaller balls. This one seems a lot more organised...
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There is a lot going on here but it's camouflaged so you have to look at it closely, at full size. It's not macro, it's kind of like spider street photography.
