Photographer Pete Mauney's mesmeric long exposures of fireflies are not only works-of-art but shed light on the insects' behavior.
consist of anything from 100 to 1500 30-megapixel RAW files and the large data require custom computers to handle the processing.PetaPixelMauney heads out each night dressed in a high-viz vest and a flashlight in search of the luminescent bugs.Armed with four Canon 5D mark IIIIs he typically has all four rigs going at the same time.
Once he has his huge files, Mauney will retouch “frame by frame,” to fix cars that have driven through his shot and “messed things up.” “I have absolutely no real clue what they are going to look like when I click the button at the end of everything and the picture magically appears.”
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