Sam Droege Bee catalog, stacked macros.

[Aglet]

Heard this on CBC, Sam Droege puts a 5D2 and an MPE 65 macro to good use, stacking dozens to a hundred images to get the final result using a beer cooler for managing the light...

https://www.flickr.com/search?text=sam%20droege

a link to the CBC audio should be good for a few months:
it's in part 2

www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/2015/01/26/saudi-oil-and-canada-dalmatians-and-bees-stock-photo-bomber-and-more/

 

[mrzero]

I wanted to know what you meant by using a beer cooler without having to listen to the audio, so I dug up this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU

Turns out, he places a styrofoam disposable cooler over the subject's mounting platform, with the twin heads of the flash pointing up from the bottom for bouncing the light around the interior of the cooler, and with cut-outs for the lens and backdrop.