Capturing Moments Wk5: Application 2 - Insect Photography

It's another week to capture moments of nature and natural things that makes our environment economical and beautiful. Last week, we focused on sunset photography though we had no entry. This week, we will still go natural by exploring moments in insects which are small living creatures found below the earth.

Insect Photography

Insect photography is sometimes compared to wildlife photography as it's not always easy to capture an insect being static. There are always in motion and cautious of their environments against predators attack. That's why it's sometimes challenging to capture an Insect with so much focus but we can always try the impossible.

Insect photography is all about positioning your camera in a focused state to capture insects from a far distance or in a mindful range that's close. Let's take the butterflies as example. We barely see the butterflies in a static position. They are always perching in seconds and then moving to places farfetched from you.

How can this be overcome? I'll teach you.

• Step 1: When you see an insect perch on a leaf, on a surface or on the ground, don't rush into capturing it immediately. First observe the insect and then open your camera. From the distance you are, try zooming to capture the insect.

• Step 2: After zooming out and you find it hard to get clarity, go closer to the Insect. You can do this by first taking a step. After taking a step, zoom out and capture it again.

• Step 3: Take another step closer and keep capturing until you've gotten very close to the insect. You can choose to adjust your zoom length or betterstill, use normal setting without zooming out.

With these steps, you can capture your insect without it knowing. Zooming helps a lot as some insects may not be one you should go close to. Let's see these pictures.

Contest Hints

• Tell us about the insect you captured and how this insect behaved when you wanted shooting your shots.

• What challenges did you face capturing this insect? Did you get the shot well? If yes, how many times did you capture before you got something perfect?

• Capture 2 pictures of an insect by zooming out and by not zooming out. Tell the differences between the two captures.

Good Luck

Contest Rules

• Post must be published in Steemkids and Parents community.

• Post must be #steemexclusive.

• The participation time is between 22nd September, 2024 and closes 29th September, 2024 by 23:59pm UTC

• The publication should be either English or Spanish.

• Post must be over 400 words.

• The images used must be the author's own

• Plagiarism and the use of AI is prohibited

• Upvote and resteem this contest post.

• Use the following title: Capturing Moments Wk 5: Application 2 - Insect Photography

• Use the tags #bjlenz-wk5 #steemexclusive, #photography #insect #country (example- #nigeria) and your clubstatus.

• Use the #burnsteem25 tag only if you have set 25% beneficiary to @null.

• Post the link to your entry in the comment section of this contest post. (very important).

• Invite at least 3 friends to take part in this contest.

• Endeavor to leave valuable comments on other people's entries.

• Tweet your post on X, write a brief introduction to your content and then use the tag #steem #steemit $steem and #photography.

Rewards

Winner	3 SP
First Runner-up	2 SP
Second Runner-up	2 SP

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