These Incredibly Important Tips Will Help You a Lot For Insect Photography!
Many photographers wonder why they should be busy with insect photography and how to do that properly. While macro photography has its own challenges, it might produce some really stunning results.
This great article explains why you should do insect photography and shares with you some really helpful tips in this field.
Read through this article, check out the images and let us know if you like insect photography!
Why photograph insects?
Because:
- 75% of living creatures on the planet fall into the insect category
- They’re fascinating subjects with great natural beauty
- The “ugh” factor the insects inspire in most people prevents us from having a close up look at the real thing
Photographing insects is a specialized field and volumes have been written on the subject. However, there are four basics you need to know when you start and once you “whys” and “how to” of these, you’ll be ready to go deeper into special effects and also start experimenting on your own. Your camera manual and articles on macro photography will tell you all you need to know about macro lenses and close up filters, so we won’t go into all that here.
1. Sharpness
Sharpness is one of the most important facets of insect photography. We’ve all seen images of flies and other insects where the minute hairs on the body are visible. Without this effect, the whole impact of the image is lost. The easiest way to ensure sharp focus is to use the auto focus option on your camera. When doing macro photography, even the slightest bit of hand shake can change the depth of field and affect the sharpness of the image, so any shake after the auto focus is complete will affect the picture. Use the normal technique of half pressing the shutter button to start the auto focus and take the picture as soon as possible. To minimize handshake, use a minimum shutter speed of 1/125 of a second.
2. Lighting
Lighting is a common problem in insect photography. Of course you can use a flash, but the problem with using a flash with macro against brightly colored plant backgrounds, which happens in most insect photography, is that the natural colors are sometimes lost. With a 1/125 of a second shutter speed, an insect that is not well lit may cause the auto focus to fail. In that case, try manual focus, and if that still doesn’t look good, go in for the flash option.
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