This is how photographers create an insect macro work

With a passion for macro genre, photographer Levon Biss created very detailed photos of insects.

Levon Bliss is a portrait photographer and he often takes photos for the world's top athletes. Sometimes he also took Macro shots of the insects his son caught. One day, he went to the Oxford Museum of Natural History , showed them his photos and persuaded them to lend him the specimens of rare and preserved insects .

The management of the museum was easily convinced of his level of photography and lent him the most beautiful insect specimens. Dr. James Hogan - an entomologist, helped him choose the special colored, shaped insects that humans are difficult to see but can be expressed well through the magnification of the microscope. .

According to Gizmodo, Levon Biss must check each part of the insect (beard, eyes .) to ensure the accuracy of the image. He uses a microscope to take a close-up view of each part of an insect and uses post-production software to combine it into a complete picture.

Because the depth of field DOF images of the optical system were so thin, he had to capture up to 10,000 different images, each with a focus range of 10 microns (1/7 of the thickness of a human hair). The resulting image will have a higher resolution than 36MP many times.

Equipment used by Levon includes:

• Nikon D810 - 36MP resolution
• Nikkor 200mm
• 10X microscope lens
• Types of lamps
• A set of dolly and electric sliders

This process of photography takes a lot of effort, each of which costs him nearly 2 weeks of work. Below is a video of the process of creating these macro macro photos:

Currently, 22 photos taken by Levon are on display at the Oxford Museum, England. Readers can take these photos below: