Consider the strobe light.Anyone who has partied in the past few decades should be familiar with the device. It flashes incessantly, transforming a living room into a night club.And the party animal who developed the strobe?Harold "Doc" Edgerton was an engineer at MIT for the better part of the 20th century...
1. You may have noticed I've only posted a couple items- both Thrifty Thursdays- since the blog launch earlier in the month. The slowness has reason.
Thrifty Thursdays feature photographs taken with equipment costing less than $500. This week's Thrifty Thursday is the first to share images taken by a photographer other than myself.
Consider the following pair of similar images: One was taken with a Canon 50D dSLR through a 100mm f/2.8 macro lens, costing slightly over $2000 for both lens and camera.
Consider the following pair of similar images:One was taken with a Canon 50D dSLR through a 100mm f/2.8 macro lens, costing slightly over $2000 for both lens and camera.
Welcome to Compound Eye, a Scientific American photography blog! The blog is new, but the blogger is not. My name is Alex Wild. I am an entomologist and nature photographer based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and I have been writing about insects, science, and photography at Myrmecos Blog since 2007...
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