Day 176 / Colleen’s Insect Collection

I’ve been running a bit behind on my creative projects because I’ve been taking on so many video projects.  There’s always the editing part I need to think about.  Anyways, last night I dropped by my friend Colleen’s house in order to film some insects.  Colleen is a professional botanist and has an amazing collection of all sorts of insects.  I have been wanting to film them since I got my crazy macro lens and last night was my chance.

 

I could have filmed these guys all night.  I would get one insect in place and then I would shoot it for twenty to thirty minutes.  There wasn’t a bad angle.  The tough part was performing pans and tilts on them.  It’s not very easy to slowly pan across a half inch of space.  I found that if I held my breath and tensed my stomach muscles I could get some fairly smooth camera movements.

 

The video below is just a taste of the overall footage I captured.  It’s also just a teensy sampling from Colleens collection.  (by the way, the two boxes of insects in the picture above is only one part of her collection).  I plan on doing more shoots with these insects.  I’m playing with the idea of working them into one of the music videos I’m slated to work on.  I also think it would be awesome to try out The Sphere Arm on some of these guys.

 

Well, I hope you like the video below.  The music in it is a song called “Happy But Years Behind” from an artist named hlp and it was created for the Monome Community Remix Project V2