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Alex Wild is an Illinois-based entomologist who studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books, and media outlets. Follow on Twitter @myrmecos.
Alex Wild is an Illinois-based entomologist who studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books, and media outlets. Follow on Twitter @myrmecos.
Thrifty Thursdays feature photographs taken with equipment costing less than $500.
Our Thursday series has typically featured me handicapping myself by attempting to photograph with digicams, scanners, webcams, cell phones and other cut-rate equipment. This week, though, I’ve got something even better.
DigitalRev has been kidnapping famous photographers and forcing them to make do with the cheapest of plastic gear. Witness one of my favorite artists, David Hobby of The Strobist, fighting with a 2 megapixel Buzz Lightyear toy camera.
To see the results, check out David Hobby’s post.
About the Author: Alex Wild is an Illinois-based entomologist who studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books, and media outlets. Follow on Twitter @myrmecos.
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Do you recall a Canadian entomologist name of Acorn, also referred to as “The Nature Nut” on TV? I recall one episode where he informed his audience that the best camera they could get for shooting bugs was a cheap, 10 dollar (Canadian) 110 instamatic that absolutely horrid pictures, unless the subject was a just the right distance from the lens. As I recall, that was about 4 inches away.
He showed some of the pictures he took with the camera, and even on a low resolution tv of the time they weren’t bad.
Link to thisOh yeah! John Acorn. He’s around. Never met him in person but I see him on facebook all the time.
Link to thisThat’s the guy. Most interesting fellow.
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