Macro Photos from Costa Rica

These are just some photos from my collection of arthropods I have photographed in Costa Rica.

Some are from live subjects, some are from dead subjects.

For the dead subjects, I use ones I find already dead and CLEAN THEM to remove dust particles (I don't kill them, so please no remarks on animal cruelty, because I respect life, and I don't kill just to get a photo, and when I shoot a live subject, I try to disturb it as little as possible), for the dead ones, I use a technique called "Stack Photography", which is a process of taking several photos changing objective position on the Z-index to change the focus point, then blending them with stacking software, like the one I use called Helicon Focus. You stack them together, thus the name of the technique.
Thanks to that blend, of sometimes hundreds of individual photos, you can obtain a fully "focused" final shot of a VERY small subject, or a DETAIL of a subject (like details of an eye, scales on the wing of a moth/butterfly, etc).

If YOU are interested in learning about Stack Photography

Then please upvote or donate (and follow), and I will make sure to create a post with a tutorial on Stack Photography and personally answer any additional question you have after you have read that tutorial. I believe in sharing information, the only reason why I ask for a donation, is so that I can keep posting without having to pay myself to post.

I can also provide tutorials for BASIC MACRO techniques.
Recommendations on gear (including cheap DYI - I'm always trying out some idea I have on making your own stuff).
ETC...

And if you have a question on regards to any of these photos in particular (how I shot it, what species - I have most of them, or at least genius or family-, conditions, etc), don't hesitate to ask.

Or, if all you have, is just a kind comment, then that's more than enough!

Any kind of love for this post is appreciated! I'm hoping Steemit will be a great place for me to share my work and my knowledge (in photography and other stuff, like what pays the bills for me, which is design, web design, illustration, and 3D).
Here are just a couple of examples of my artwork in illustration (of course, to stay on subject, of arthropods - in this case, made for an entomology museum in Costa Rica working directly with specimens from their collection. These are from 1996).


I like ideas like what Steemit stands for, and especially if they are related to the blockchain!

Much love from Costa Rica.
OB.