Leon Baas is a Dutch macro photographer with a great passion for insects. He often shows them in backlight and dramatic color, and he builds much of his own equipment.

Igor Siwanowicz (born 1976) is a Polish-born scientist and photographer. He is known for close-up portraits of insects, reptiles and amphibians, and for colorful confocal microscope images of tiny animals.

David Maitland is a British nature and science photographer who works with small and microscopic subjects. He trained as a zoologist and did research on how animals are built and how they move.

Ondrej Pakan is a macro photographer from Myjava, Slovakia. He photographs insects up close, often just after rain or on cold mornings, when they are covered in tiny drops of water.

Thomas Shahan (born about 1988) is an American macro photographer from Oklahoma. He is best known for close-up color portraits of jumping spiders, made with simple and often homemade gear.