The Magical World of Insect Digital Photography - A Digital Camera Adventure in Miniature

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When sitting in our garden or out walking in the woods we are sometimes distracted by a flying insect such as a butterfly passing us by or perhaps a ladybird beetle on her merry way, maybe even an unwelcome wasp that is trying to smell our lips to see what we had for breakfast. In our world they are many things to each of us, they make us happy, sad, or even frightened sometimes at the very sight of some of them. Yet even though they outnumber us by billions we are rarely bothered by them no matter how weird or menacing they may appear to look. That is unless of course you happen to take a real close look at what they really look like...

There are one or two ways that we can enter their world and take a closer look at these amazing creatures that have existed for millions of years. The first involves them being dead and examining them by means of a microscope, which is neither very humane nor skillful.

Another way to examine or take a closer look at them is by means of photography, which preserves their existence as well as making the whole event much more interesting. A bit like going hunting, only instead of using something as destructive as a rifle we would be using a camera lens which is a lot more creative and helps with conservation.

With modern day camera lenses even something as normal as an 18 - 75mm with macro will produce some very interesting close up images. From that there are a couple of alternatives for taking close-up images, the first is to start purchasing expensive lenses that will produce some simply amazing pictures, but for a much cheaper yet by no means tacky are lens magnifiers.

These magnifiers generally come in a selection of sizes that can all fit on the front of a lens as well as each other.

Sets tend to contain a:

1x Magnification
2x Magnification
4x Magnification and a
10x Magnification

Once we have a set of these it is simply a question of attaching to our lens and going off hunting (in miniature) some of the images that are able to be captured in this manner are sometimes beyond belief and certainly make all the effort of spending ages on our hands and knees worthwhile.

Ideally a tripod would be the chosen means of holding the camera for some great pictures, but with insect photography this is rarely possibly due to the continual movement and speed with which the insects tend to move about.

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