Butterfly wall
(Collection of Shanghai Museum of Natural History)
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The picture shooting method of this article can be described as too "more real"——
But I was completely dumbfounded.
This may no longer be just the category of "photography",
Instead, it found the entrance to "Zhuang Zhou Mengdi";
Just look closely,
The so-called great "three thousand worlds",
It's actually on the wings of the little bug.
The following picture,
Watch carefully as if you can be fascinated;
Meticulous enough to feel "horrifying",
It's also "scary" to the point of obsession.
Photography: Yuan Ji
Morpho rhetenor helena
Close-up of the scales of the golden spotted moth (Eterusia repleta).
(※ Put on the headphones, hold your breath, click on the video - the photographer shot more than 200 butterfly scales in 3 years, collected into a very colorful "1 minute")
"I'm not a professional photographer."
The author of this article says that he is only "out of interest" obsessed with macro and micrography.
"Since 2017, I have had the idea of photographing tiny collections, to use a camera to present them in more detail and preserve the overall integrity, and I kept trying until February 2018, when I officially completed my first photography."
Can you imagine the total pixels of that photo?
At the beginning of 2018,
The author shoots through 20 days,
Subtle recording in microns,
Thousands of photos were taken of each part.
Up to 30,000 shutters get 55 different partial photos,
Eventually, by the hundreds of available pictures,
The panorama is composed of a 2.1 billion pixel elephant armor bust——
2.1 billion pixel panoramic deep elephant armor (Eupholus linnei)
Many people who are proficient in photography can hardly imagine the mystery of this shooting method, and the author Yuan Ji gave the answer -
If magnification of 1x is macro photography; 1-5x is ultramicro; then more than 5x is microscopy. Then, when shooting more than 1 times, we will be more and more limited by the depth of field (the picture is very easy to appear before the real and then virtual, before the virtual and then the real), the reduction of the aperture value beyond the diffraction limit will affect the picture quality, how can we truthfully record the small objects fully clear, full of picture quality photos? - Depth of field compositing.
Photograph butterfly scales
"Depth of field synthesis" is often used in landscape photography, but in the ultra-macro field, extremely precise "micro-manipulation" is required, because the depth of field under different magnification objectives is extremely shallow - such as the butterfly scales in the previous video, the single depth of field is only 1-2 microns (1 micron equals one thousandth of a millimeter).
(Fig.↓)
Green-banded kingfisher scales panoramic deep finished picture
Until you finally break through the limit of depth of field,
So it was as if the door to another world had been opened.
The little beings around you,
Instantly strange and magical.
Gif from the film Doctor Strange
Insects are the most prosperous animals in the world, with more than 1 million species discovered (an estimated 4 million remain undiscovered), and insects are much more numerous than all other animal species combined, accounting for 80% of the animal kingdom! Exquisite insect specimens are also prized by some collectors, and they have subtle, perfect forms (most of the photos below are taken in the above-mentioned shooting methods).
Morpho deidamia
Bluebird wing butterfly (Ornithoptera urvillianus)
Morpho portis thamyris
Morpho portis thamyris panoramic deep scale close-up
Close-up of the Zephyritis (Zepho zephyritis).
Close-up of a panoramic deep scale of the Goddess of Light (Morpho rhetenor helena).
Close-up of the green ghost butterfly (Morpho absoloni) panoramic deep scales
Mosaic green-banded kingps maackii summer type
Close-up of the green-banded butterfly Papilio maackii
Spirits on the plateau, part of the silk butterfly (only the picture in this GIF is not composed of panoramic depth)
Close-up of butterfly scales
Close-up of the Alcides orontes
Close-up of the goldenrod moth (Eterusia repleta).
Above is the colorful and fascinating Lepidoptera,
Below is the thick-looking coleoptera -
The first order of insects, commonly known as "beetles".
Neolucanus maximus
Red-legged staghorn spade (South Asian species) (Rhaetulus crenatus ruburifemoratus)
Red-legged antler spade (South Asian species) Local panoramic deep close-up
Lucanus klapperichi Bomans
Aristobia horridula
Ruby Turtle (Chrysina Aurigans)
Chrysina Aurigans
Silver-sapphire turtle (Chrysina Chrysargyrea)
Mutant Golden Gem Turtle (Chrysina boucardi)
Close-up of the mutant golden gem tortoise (Chrysina boucardi).
Mutant Powder - Black-backed Gem Turtle (Chrysina chrysopedila)
Close-up of the mutant pink-black-backed gem golden turtle (Chrysina chrysopedila).
Red-spotted gem turtle (Chrysina cunninghami)
Close-up of the red-spotted gem turtle (Chrysina cunninghami).
Chrysina moroni
Close-up of Chrysina moroni
Purple Gem Turtle (Chrysina paulseni)
Close-up of the Purple Gem Golden Turtle (Chrysina Paulseni).
Mutant Purple Gem Turtle (Chrysina paulseni)
Close-up of the mutant purple-sapphire golden turtle (Chrysina paulseni).
Chrysina purulhensis
Close-up of Chrysina purulhensis
ladybug
Harmonia eucharis
Llleis confusa Timberlake
Dragonflies, there are about 5,000 species in the world and more than 300 species in China, which are relatively primitive taxa in the insect order and a smaller order. Dragonflies are divided into three suborders: the differential-winged suborder "Dragonfly"; the homophingoptera is collectively known as "cōng"), and two species of interpternous insects found in Japan and India.
Dark Creek cercatcher (Eurobasis kaupi)
Close-up of The Dark Creek Cerrogue (Eurobasis kaupi).
Butterfly scales on neurobasis chinensis Linnaeus
Dust mites, currently known as the strongest allergen in the world. There are many types of dust mites, and a mite can be attached to more than 12 allergens, and there are 42,000 mites in every 30 grams of dust. More than 90% of infectious diseases in infants and young children are caused by mites. According to the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 70% of infectious diseases are related to mites.
One of the allergens, dust mites (D. farinae)
The Chilean small plant mite (Phytoseiulus persimilis), not an allergic mite, is a beneficial mite widely used for biological control, feeding mainly on red spiders (leaf mites) for large-scale rearing and marketing as a commodity. The female mites are about 350 microns long and orange.
The coherent timeline from hundreds of millions of years to 10 million to 20 million years, and its wonderful inclusions solidified in amber, allow scientists to study and explore the evolution of organisms, and the changes in the earth's paleoenvironment have more coherent fossil evidence. Amber is one of the very few fossil species in the world that can preserve the three-dimensional panorama of living things in three dimensions.
Leafcutter ants in Dominican amber
Dinosaur feathers in Burmese amber: Theropoda Coeluridae
Butterfly scales shot
"In addition to accurate calculations, the stability of the shooting platform and environment, the fixation of the specimens, and the lighting of the microscopic shooting will all affect the final shooting result." To take a good picture of a biological specimen, you need to have enough patience to clean it, these tasks need to be operated under the microscope, and it is often possible to touch and cause damage to the specimen. Yuan Sheji, the author of this article, said, "The completion of each work is a tribute to these beautiful creatures, and I am grateful to be with them." ”