Photographic Art Using Microscopy
Microscope Imaging and Digital Photography – An Original Artform
Photographic artists wanting to expand their imaging horizons may be surprised where those horizons may be. You may be thinking in traditional photographic terms, but for real originality you can look at alternative optics to to place in front of your camera. Once example can be a telescope, and there are legions of astrophotographers out there that got into astronomy just for the imaging. Another less popular but just as powerful alternative is microsopy, photography through a microscope.
Olympus and Nikon both have a full line of microscopic imaging for the scientific community. Both have extensive websites dedicated toward the science and image competitions hosted every year:
Click here for the Olympus BioScapes Website
Click here for the Nikon Small World Website
You can be drawn to this world, not for the science, but for the remarkable images. Taking photos of travel, landscapes, portraits or architecture is common to us all. The microscopic world is a whole other ballgame. Compositions are limitless as microscopic subject matter is limitless. Lets put it this way, when was the last time you toured an art gallery and viewed microscopic images? If you’re into originality, you should view the Olympus and Nikon sites to find some inspiration, or at least view some cool images.
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