This week’s Gizmodo Shooting Challenge theme is Insects — and you have until Tuesday to send in your best work. To help get your creative juices flowing, here is an amazing collection of images from Malaysian photographer, Lee Peiling. Pictures so fantastic, it feels like you’re peering into another world. A world populated with helpful praying mantises and ants ready to lend a helping hand. The photographer utilized the Bokeh photography technique to achieve the ethereal quality of the macro-photos. The bokeh technique emphasises the aesthetic quality of out of focus areas and how those blurred areas render light. The highlights in those blurred areas usually produce a halo of light. According to Colossal, Lee picked up the camera for the first time three years ago. Imagine how incredible her photographs will be after six years. [Lee Peiling via Colossal]
CrowdedTrousers
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 10:42 AMwow. these are the best quality submissions yet. i like all of them!
josh
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Michael
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 2:43 PMjust a bit racist
Will
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 8:55 PMthese werent shooting challenge entries
Heisenburg
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 11:07 AMSurprised to see these were taken with a 50D and a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM. I would have expected more expensive kit to produce these images.
Timmeh
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 6:53 PMIt’s not the price of your kit, it’s how you use it…
Ben
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 7:46 PMGood gear always helps. Not that there’s anything wrong with a 50d or especially the 100mm f/2.8 IS USM.
Stebo
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 9:25 PMNot bad but I think it’s an extraordinary coincidence that the dust particles (or whatever ) are in exactly the same position in the last two shots.
Timmeh
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 11:43 AMNice spot!
Dirty lens or post processing I guess…