Microsculpture: Insect Portraits Under The Microscope By Levon Biss – Design You Trust — Design Daily Since 2007

Microsculpture: Insect Portraits Under The Microscope By Levon Biss

Jewel Longhorned Beetle

Levon Biss is a talented British photographer and filmmaker, who’s typically shoots portraits of world-class athletes. His passion for nature led him to create the striking “Microsculpture” project, a unique photographic study of insects in mind-blowing magnification. His talent for capturing insects started as a side-project in his home, and featured bugs caught by his son, and now Levon embraced the world of macrophotography and has taken the genre to a new level.

More info: Levon Biss, Microsculpture (h/t: photogrist)

Branched Backed Treehopper

Levon Biss used a 36 megapixel Nikon D810 with a 10x microscope objective attached through a 200mm prime lens. Each of his images is composed of around 8-10,000 individual shots. Segments of the specimen are lit and photographed separately, ‘stacked’ to maintain sharp focus throughout, then combined into a single high-resolution file.

Darkling Beetle

“Each image from the Microsculpture project is created from around 8000 individual photographs. The pinned insect is placed on an adapted microscope stage that enables me to have complete control over the positioning of the specimen in front of the lens. I shoot with a 36-megapixel camera that has a 10x microscope objective attached to it via a 200mm prime lens,” says Levon.

Flying Saucer Trench Beetle

Ground Beetle China

Marion Flightless Moth

Orchid Cuckoo Bee

Splendid-necked Dung Beetle

Treehopper

Tricoloured Jewel Beetle

If you want more awesome content, subscribe to 'Design You Trust Facebook page. You won't be disappointed.

More Inspiring Stories

Serbian Photographer Exposes Stunning Photos Of Daily Life In Moscow, Russia You've Never Seen Before
Otaku In Osaka
Atmospheric Retro Images Of The USSR As Photographed By American Professor Thomas T. Hammond
Jodie Foster Holding a Lamb in a Promo Shoot for "The Silence of the Lambs"
Children With Down Syndrome Recreate Famous Paintings To Prove That Everyone Is A Work Of Art
Japanese Nighttime Factory Photography Will Have You Believing FF7’s Midgar Is Real
Russian “Paradise” for Mentally Disabled
Stunning Atmospheric Photographs Of London Streets At Night In The 1930s
Beautiful Vintage Photographs Of The Peasant Moldovians In The 50-70s: A Unique Photo Archive
Photographer Shot Portraits Of Strangers Before And After She Kissed Them
A Beautiful Photo Series of Audi F103
"Emotional Struggle": The Melancholic Creepy Self-Portraits of Miroslava Vikhrenko
Spectacular Winning Images from The Budapest International Foto Awards 2021
Woman Uses Her iPhone To Capture Portraits Of Strangers On Her Daily Commute To Work, And The Result Is Impressive
Romantic French Postcards From The Early 20th Century
2014 National Geographic Photo Contest, Week 1
#decay_nation: Abandoned Germany By Markus Ecke Wie Kante
Nature Framed By Myoung Ho Lee
Photographer Paul Clifton Perfectly Captures A Brutal Beauty Of Classic Motorcycles
A Striking Photo Series Of Beautiful Adoptable Black Cats Posing Against A Dark Background
Meet Photographer Emanuele D’Angelo, Who Calls Emily Ratajkowski His Muse
Photographer Paints Portraits Of Inuit People Into Polar Night Landscapes
Cool Pics Defined Fashion Trend Of Young Women In The 1990s
Spectacular Winners Of The US Nature’s Best Photography Contest 2017