A flash assisted shot, to separate the insect from the background. Bon Appétit!
Jim
James Longster, © 2018
Juicy Dinner
This is a blog about Images, "The Darker Image" refers not to the content so much (though it is there), but to my use of Dark Space to create tension, or emotional content.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Juicy Dinner
Well, you can truly see the process this insect uses to eat, just like a spider, I guess. Pump your dinner full of digestive juices, then suck’er dry. You can even see the bubbles inside the prey insect, an interesting shot if a bit gross.
It's My Leaf
I suppose I could have hunted up the name of this fly, but since it was mostly, well completely, the eyes I was interested in, I didn’t. Roger and I finally got our cameras to do what we thought they could do, that is to resolve the facets of a bugs eyes. We have succeeded! Some bugs/insects are much tougher to get than others, at least as Roger has mentioned on his Blog, alive.
We don’t shoot dead bugs and represent them as alive, it the bug is dead, it is part of the “story” of that image. Other than one bug consuming another, every bug we shoot is alive, that makes for some bug that are just pure luck to get that shot, this was not one of them.
Jim
James Longster, © 2018
It’s my leaf, and I will sit here if I want to!
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