Video: Microcosm in macro photography
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Some research photographers turn their gaze into space and photograph distant nebulae, while others look at close ones and take up a microscope.
The Royal Photographic Society of Britain honors each year individuals who have made significant contributions to the science and art of photography. The Scientific Imaging Award recognizes those who help to better understand our world by making natural and technological processes visible. This year, Spike Walker, the attentive documentary filmmaker of the microworld, once again received the award for scientific photography and educational activities.
Spike Walker is a zoologist who has been passionate about microscopy and macro photography for 70 years.
His photographs were used to create instructional slides back in the 1960s and have won regular awards. In this video, the photographer talks about his work. And ordinary salt and pepper look like this through the magnifying lenses of his lens:
Bacteria and ciliates captured by the photographer in a vase of flowers. Maybe you have one on your table too?
Egg and sperm during artificial insemination:
And this is what ordinary sand looks like:
There are different versions of how large a photo must be to be considered a macro. According to one version, for a photo to receive this status, objects must be shot 1: 1 or larger, according to another - 1:10 or larger.
Photographer Dante Fenoglio captures animals not so large that you can see the structure of their skin, but glare enough for the viewer to see the gecko or fish in detail.
One of the most beautiful projects is a series of pictures of aquatic inhabitants hiding from the light. As a rule, because of this, they acquired a rather unusual appearance, for example, like these fish from the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean:
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Every year Nikon holds a competition among scientists for the best microscopic photography: Nikon's Small World: Photomicrography Competition. Among the best galleries of the project site you can find the following images:
Carrot seeds:
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Butterfly wings:
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Horse hooves:
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Here they regularly post a photo of the day, which, for example, such a handsome man, cimex lectularius, more commonly known as a bed bug, can fall.
In addition to photographs, prizes are awarded to short videos that show familiar objects in an enlarged form or capture the world invisible to the ordinary eye in motion. In the video below, one ciliate is eating another.
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