Charles Piper on shooting insects

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Searching the contents on Charles Piper's "The Technical Page", I 
was surprised to find an entire Installement (#93) on photographing
insects in 3D.  Interesting quotes:

- "There are nearly as many ways to photograph an insect as there are
  insect photographers."
- "I myself do not collect insects... "collected", a euphemism meaning
  killed by a Ph.D. lepidopterist"
- "I shoot live insects only, using Hyponar attachment on an Exacta VX
  body and two small strobes."
- "Stereo doesn't really *need* shadows."
- "For insects I usually use K25 film"
- "The thing which stops the insect's wings is the strobe at 1/1000 sec."
- "If you are shooting against the blue sky at f/22...the sky will be
  underexposed enough to be a good background."
- "What I do with the Hyponar could certainly be done with Realist Macro."

He concludes:  "If you haven't tried shooting insects the way they really
are, you owe it to yourself to try my method.  Let's have an end to the 
"DEAD BUG SYNDROME".  I think you will be as excited as I was when I saw 
things on my slide I could never have seen with the naked eye.  The magic 
of stereo again."

George Themelis, quoting Charles Piper.


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