{"id":8554,"date":"2024-04-14T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:57:27","slug":"insect-photography-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8554","title":{"rendered":"Insect Photography Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At my U3A photography group on Wednesday we had an insect photography workshop run by Marlies Chell who, apparently, runs a number of these sessions for camera clubs. This was an interesting and informative afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to try two types of photography: Extreme macro and Ultra Violet fluorescence. The extreme macro didn’t work due to the fact that the hall had a sprung wooden floor that bounced a lot when people walked past causing image movement. The ultra violet partially worked because the hall was quite bright – I would have preferred to try this in a darker environment. Anyway, here are some of the results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malayan jungle nymph head shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Malayan jungle nymph crop showing just the eye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guadeloupe stick insect head and eye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guadeloupe stick insect fluorescence under UV on the tail giving 2 ‘eyes’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Giant spiny stick insect showing fluorescence under UV on the body and leg joints<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Giant spiny stick insect on a wooden stump<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I don’t know if this next one was mis-labelled but it was only about 3 cm long – some giant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giant rainforest mantis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And finally a view showing a typical set-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A typical setup with camera, insect (on a stick!), background and lighting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now I know what to expect, I would like to have another opportunity to try this again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At my U3A photography group on Wednesday we had an insect photography workshop run by Marlies Chell who, apparently, runs a number of these sessions for camera clubs. This was an interesting and informative afternoon. I wanted to try two types of photography: Extreme macro and Ultra Violet fluorescence. The extreme macro didn’t work due … Continue reading “Insect Photography Workshop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,129,93,22,24,3,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up","category-fluorescence","category-insects","category-macro","category-nature","category-photography","category-ultra-violet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8565,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}