Re: Charles Piper on shooting insects

[P3D Don Chaps <dchaps@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, P3D Dr. George A. Themelis wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
Back in the old days, the buggy types 
would put their little subjects in the refrigerator to slow them down...


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