This article provides details on a focusing method that I developed specifically for springtails. Macrophotographic shooting at high magnification ratios indeed raises technical difficulties, whether in terms of focusing the subject (map), the very shallow depth of field and the very short distances (minimum and maximum) reduced...
To photograph the springtails
Intuitive triggering in macro photography
Berlèse apparatus
The photographic approach of springtails and more broadly that of soil microfauna is confronted with technical difficulties, but also with the need to find these animals within the litter or the various substrates they occupy. We can content ourselves with
Photographing springtails
Amateur, I learned about animal photography with birds and then I abandoned the telephoto lens to focus on macrophotography. On this occasion I discovered a world of extraordinary variety. Insects and arachnids were my first targets, but every year, when winter came, I was frustrated
Photographic material
No need to consider photographing springtails without a minimum of equipment. It is necessary to have at least a 1: 1 ratio macro lens, that is to say that the size of the subject photographed after passing through the optical system (objective) will be the same on the sensor