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RSS FeedsSeeing into space: Cosmic Microscapes with photographer Neil Buckland
(Digital Photography Review)

 
 

21 april 2019 16:35:49

 
Seeing into space: Cosmic Microscapes with photographer Neil Buckland
(Digital Photography Review)
 


A slice of meteorite, sandwiched between two linear polarizers. Neil Buckland is obsessed with detail. For more than fifteen years, the Seattle-based photographer has been doing stitched landscape photography composed of dozens of images, captured on everything from Micro Four Thirds cameras all the way up to medium format. These days, he`s become enamored with a new type of landscape - one that is very, very small. It also happen to come from space. `I`ve always been fascinated with abstract photography of ordinary things,` Buckland says. `There`s beauty everywhere, and I especially love using macro lenses to reveal more detail than I can see with my eyes - an extension of seeing more detail is capturing more resolution, more clarity, more information.` When it comes to his newest work, which he`s titled Cosmic Microscapes, the objects of Buckland`s abstract photography are anything but ordinary. They`re impossibly thin slices (i.e. 30 microns `thick` - human hair averages 90 microns) of formerly space-faring objects that have crashed into Earth over the millennia. And though most of these slides are around 0.75`x1.5` in size, Buckland is making prints from them that are around 12 feet wide and even larger. By rotating the polarizers, Buckland can alter the visible colors seen through the sample. I had a chance to sit down with Buckland in his studio in south Seattle to discuss not only how this project came to be, but also how he manages to produce these images - and this insane amount of detail - on a fully custom-built rig. `The depth-of-field is 3.5 microns thick` It all started when Dr. Tony Irving of the University of Washington first came to Buckland`s studio three years ago to have meteorite slices photographed for a scientific presentation. At that time, Buckland didn`t know what this project would grow into. Buckland`s rig is almost entirely custom-made for this specific purpose. `The firs ...


 
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