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Please enjoy the opportunity to look at the world from another perspective.
From the angle of the VERY SMALL.
Make sure you take a look at all the sections and sub-pages listed on the top menu.
And the icons at the very top right, will also allow you to find me on many social networks, including Facebook, where my page is updated before I even get a chance to upload images here!
March 2nd.
(It’s my birthday BTW)
Macro Photo Workshop
I wanted to let you all know I will be giving a Macro Photography Workshop in Costa Rica. At the Conservation Park of Santa Ana, San Jose.
Here is the info, and if you’re in Costa Rica for April 2nd, 2016, then maybe you can assist! (the cost is $50 U.S. – including refreshments, entrance to the park and parking).
Register here: http://multiprointernationalcr.com/taller-macro-2016/
September 1st, 2015
It’s Official!
This moss mantis that had no previous images (illustrations or photographs) and only a description in a book from 1918 by Rehn up until I took some photos of it back in July 2012.
This photo is the first ever of Pogonogaster tristani. Not my best photo, but the first!
Here is a link to the PDF from the Magazine of the University of Caldas, Manizales Colombia, by author Julián A. Salazar – with me as co-author (because of my photos and location information):
http://vip.ucaldas.edu.co/
https://es.wikipedia.org/
May 14th, 2014.
GREAT NEWS!
My Pogonogaster tristani Mantis photo, was chosen as Photograph of the Year on the Insect News Network!
Thanks to Becky Randall from Go Ahead, Bug me! for her nomination!
Read the backstory on this photo, which also represents a species re-discovery on my Facebook Page, or view footage I also took of it, which you can find on the right column of this site, right next to this text!
And now for some pics!
Oscar, your macro work is absolutely stunning! I’m an amateur metal sculptor from Detroit. I’ve always wanted a great source for the micro details of insects. And now I’ve found you! I would like to ask your permission to use your pictures as source material for my welding projects. I would of course credit and reference you. If you would like to see my sculptures, I’m on facebook. Lockhart Metal Art. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Thanks Jeff.
Found your facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LockhartMetalArt
Sure, you can use these images as references, but please make sure you do two things as a courtesy:
1- Let me know which images you will use and if possible send me updates and final result images. I’ll post them on my own pages and we can promote each other’s work as a collaboration.
2- When you credit, please make sure to add links.
How does that sound?
Excelentes fotos
Muchas gracias por la visita Mario!
The little scared bug that was in your eye is a Rove Beetle.
hehehe thanks for the ID 🙂
Great photos!!!! How do you get such extreme close ups? What camera/lens do you use?
Thanks Susan.
In the case of the extreme close ups, it’s done using a bellows (plus a macro lens, extension tubes and a Raynox DCR-250).
Hello Oscar,
Your photographs are wonderful. I would still like to learn how to do macro photography. I would like to use some of your photography in art- with links, of course. The resultant art might be unrecognizably different!
Sincerely,
It sounds interesting. Could please tell me more about your project first?
Thanks!
Wonderful shots Oscar. What camera and lens do you use? Keep up the good work.
Thanks Lloyd.
It depends.
Sometimes I only use my Nikkor 60mm micro. Sometimes I add extension tubes or even a Raynox DCR-250.
But when I do extreme close-ups. I use the 60mm plux a Nikon PB-5 Bellows and a 2x Teleconverter.
hola Oscar tus fotos son expectacularmente impresionantes, padrisimas, queria preguntarte sin con mi camara Canon PowerShot sx 60 se pueden fotografias Macro, saludos y gracias…:)
Hola Carlos.
Pues si y no. Es algo limitada por ser lente fijo, pero talvez puedes montar un lente reversado (como explico en mi video del taller de macro) y con eso logras mas ampliacion. Otra es que compres ampliadores como los Raynox.
Buena suerte!
eu preciso fotografar olho humano com macro mais grande e com nitifez dos detalhes. tenho uma Nikon D5000 qual lente vc me orienta? gracias