macrojul
microphotography
My microphotography work takes place exclusively in the studio, using microscope objectives to achieve magnification ratios of 10:1 and 20:1. The subjects I photograph at this level of magnification are deceased and I obtain these specimens ethically through local entomologists.
I use a motorized rail to perform focus bracketing, capturing a series of images where only a tiny section is in focus at each step, with increments as small as 1 micron. Creating a fully focused image often requires a large number of photos, typically between 50 and 400 or even more.
A single image can take more than 10 hours of meticulous work, including subject cleaning, positioning, shooting, and post-production editing.
This is an example of a before-and-after comparison of a butterfly wing at 20x magnification. The first image is a focus stack created in Helicon directly from the RAW files, while the second image shows the final result after full post-processing and editing.
