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Daniel Kariko, USA: фотографии, сделанные с использованием двух разных микроскопов


А.Л. Лобанов


Meet the neighbours: The incredible alien faces of the most common insects that share our homes.
North Carolina-based photographer, Daniel Kariko, using two different microscopes.

HOW THE IMAGES WERE CAPTURED

Daniel Kariko shoots the dead insects under a stereoscopic microscope and a scanning electron microscope. He then combines the images in Photoshop.

The stunning colours in these images are captured using the stereoscopic microscope, with the help of tiny LEDs that illuminate the creatures. Kariko says it usually takes six shots with various focal lengths on the microscope to create a final image.

The boll weevil, for instance, is a widespread pest, but in Kariko's work, it looks more like an alien creature you would see in a science fiction film.

The photographer has to be careful to match up the images from both microscopes so that they can later be combined into a stunning portrait.

Editing the images often takes several hours using Photoshop, he said.

The images are titled with purposefully vague location and a date invoking a quasi-scientific approach to this series.

As part of Kariko's latest project, he has captured more than 50 bugs - with each image taking between 15 and 20 hours a day to complete.

He now plans to collaborate further with scientists, and says photographing the creatures in this way might help scientists see them in a new light.


Долгоносик (Dryophthoridae)



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