Insects up close
The Hernanian David López Encinas wanted to see the face of the insects; the eyes, the jaws, the jaws. She has loved insects since she was a child. He was given a guide and since then he spent hours in Cáceres, his grandfather’s house, watching, classifying, drawing xomorros.
He made his first attempts to see it up close with the magnifying glass; and after a few years, he added the objective of a microscope to the photographic camera and ended up making an extreme macro. Photography itself doesn’t interest you too much, it’s just the way you got what you always wanted to get: to know insects up close, up close; to see your face, your eyes, even your hair.
He especially loves the first picture that went well for him. It's not one of the best, but it was the first. “It was a fly; after many trials, I finally saw the eyes of the fly!” He doesn't go after special insects. He takes to the studio those who find them drowned in the pool or those who see them dead on the floor while walking. Because for the technique he uses, they must be dead, and killing doesn't seem ethical to him.
The technique is the accumulation of images. To get the final photo, take hundreds of photos, micrometers to micrometers. Only a small part of each photo remains sharp, focused. And it gets the final photo, with spectacular detail, by associating these parts through a software.
It takes patience and hours to get a picture like this. It's just that he's been leaving for a long time because he's having a hard time finding those hours. The one who leaves the works free now dedicates them to “another little insect of eight months” that he has in his house. He would like to regain his passion. Maybe if he finds a special insect, maybe when he comes back to Cáceres on vacation.
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