Shikhei Goh is one of my Favorite Macro-Photographers
Feb 26, 2017 12:14:52 #
This is an interesting, easily duplicated technique: https://www.facebook.com/shikhei.gohiii/posts/712042018976614?pnref=story
Feb 26, 2017 12:50:27 #
Feb 26, 2017 17:44:27 #
He does publish a lot of great photos.
But I did some searching and a group of critics and animal rights people are really hitting him hard for the ways they believe he and others are staging the poses.
But I did some searching and a group of critics and animal rights people are really hitting him hard for the ways they believe he and others are staging the poses.
Feb 26, 2017 18:01:41 #
robertjerl wrote:
In my opinion, the most conscientious photographers follow the Hippocratic "oath" which is first and foremost to do no harm. Of course there are destructive invasive species which one might have a different view of: A disease- carrying mosquito might be fair game, while a black widow spider would not. Just my two pennies....He does publish a lot of great photos. But I did some searching and a group of critics and animal rights people are really hitting him hard for the ways they believe he and others are staging the poses.
Feb 26, 2017 18:49:44 #
robertjerl wrote:
It would be troubling if expectations for animal rights were extended to insects. My hands are drenched in hemolymph from my years of collecting with butterfly net and a killing jar. He does publish a lot of great photos. But I did some searching and a group of critics and animal rights people are really hitting him hard for the ways they believe he and others are staging the poses.
But I am adding in an edit that posing frogs and lizards could become objectionable.
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