Five best tips for professional insect photography!
Hi guys, insects are most beautiful creatures either you agree or not. It's definitely cute. Many people focus to take wild animals, birds, and other shots but forget to admire insects. Here i say about 5 best tips for insect photography.
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| Wasp when fly. Shutterspeed 1/720s and ISO100 |
1. What is the best time to capture insects? Definitely best time is morning and evening. Because insect are most active in morning for hunting, searching foods and prevent from predators. But evening, they will be tried and take rest. If you are beginner, try in evening. Or if you want take activities of insects, take at morning. 
Lynx Jumping spider. Shutterspeed 1/110s and ISO100
2. When decide to capture insect's photos, you should know about common activities of insects like where is it, what they eat, are they fly or jump etc. It's helpful for know their activity and when you take shots you can recognize what it will do next.
3. Don't take only face of insects! Many insect's photos captured only face. Why don't we try full view or side view for different perspectives. Because most people think like weird about zoom shots. So try to take full body, legs, back shape of insects etc.
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| Leaf beetle. Shutterspeed 1/180s and ISO100 |
4. Everyone know, if we decide to shoot insects, should need macro lens! Don't need worry about cost of macro lens. If your are mobile photographer, macro lens cost start from ₹199 to ₹3000. So choose best lens for great shots.
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| Pumpkin beetle. Shutterspeed 1/400s and ISO100 |
5. Insects are very active than other creatures. For example, most of insect has compound eyes. So if you go near with insects it easily can fly. Because our activities are seem like very slow motion to insects. So handle humbly. And i can surely say we need more patience to meet insects. Handle like pet is easy way for insect.
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| Nymph of box bug. Shutterspeed 1/100s and ISO100 |
Many people asked, where did you find insects? Insects are live with us. Actually we are live together in every moment. So don't want to go so far to search insects. Just take camera and walk in your home you can capture minimum 5 species of insects!!!
Note: Aperture is fixed f1.7 .
Thank you!
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