Comments on: Close-ups of insects

Close-ups of insects

Kattullus — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:31:55 -0800

The Insect Close-ups Flickr Pool is full of fascinating pictures. There are all kinds of wonderful images to be found, of spiders, ladybugs, hornets, aphids, grasshoppers, worms, water striders and those superstars of the insect world, bees and butterflies. You can also search a map for pictures by location. If you want to take your own bug photographer Mark Plonsky has written a short how-to guide. He has taken some pretty great photographs of insects himself.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:11:12 -0800

The key to the how-to guide--and the key to all insect close-ups: reversed lenses. Just do a Flickr search under the "close-ups of insects" group linked above for the query term "reversed" and see what I mean.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:39:18 -0800

Well it's not all insects, per se, but it's 100% full of win and awesome. Or fear and loathing, depending on how you feel about the creeping things that creepeth upon the ground.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:42:38 -0800

This is relevant to your interests, if your interests include looking really closely at land dwelling exoskeleton having type critters and their fascinating ways.

By: BinaryApe

BinaryApe — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:38:51 -0800

I like the way he's blended photos with different planes of focus together, to create images with most of the insect clearly defined rather than just one part such as the eyes, or mouth. I'm also very impressed that most of the photos were taken without a tripod, and with relatively old and inexpensive hardware.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:02:02 -0800

Have you noticed that more close-up you go, the creepier they get?

By: gomichild

gomichild — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:01:04 -0800

The post is so full of awesome! And creepy... *keeps scratching*

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:14:42 -0800

Including pictures by metafilter's own Ambrosia Voyeur. OK so I have an XTi with a 1.4/50. So the easiest way to play with this is to buy a diopter? Which one?

By: gemmy

gemmy — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:39:30 -0800

Oh, cool! I added some of mine too to the pool. Creepy crawlies inducing for sure, particularly that one by Ambrosia Voyeur - I have a total phobia for ants...

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:32:38 -0800

My wife will enjoy this. I was telling a co-worker about the wool carder bees living in our front yard a while back, and did a GIS on them. I remember thinking that some of the pictures on the first page of images looked just like the one's she took. Then I clicked the link and found that there was a reason for that.

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:54:43 -0800

This one must have gotten caught by a spider...D'oh!

By: Countess Elena

Countess Elena — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:02:07 -0800

I love this one. I think it would fit in one of those flowery desk calendars you always see in the cubes of aging pink-collar petty bureaucrats.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:36:22 -0800

Thanks, guys. Yeah contraption, my consort, put some up, too. Sorry for swamping it, but I definitely had to add some to that pool. Thanks for the great links. I have but a shitty little digital camera, but it manages some decent macrophotography, so I get to be the one who's looking at the bark and the ground when everybody else is getting the same shots of the mountain. I like that.

By: backseatpilot

backseatpilot — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:30:37 -0800

Ooh, nice. I put a couple pictures in the pool. Not that I am in any way trying to drive traffic to my flickr account. *Desperately watching referral stats*

By: BoldStepDesign

BoldStepDesign — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:34:48 -0800

Those beetle's make me hungry!