Macro photography: January 2014

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Macro Everywhere. What the eye does not see.

Macro Everywhere. What the eye does not see.

Macro is just not about taking photos of dragon flies. I will reserve a page just for them.
There is an infinite list of discoveries just waiting to be captured.

Go and explore and be creative.

One of the hardest boundaries in real macro photography is over combatting shallow depth of field.

One reason for keeping focus shallow, is to avoid cluttered backgrounds Depth is good for keeping all the subject in focus, Nowadays you can use photo stacking that allows you to layer photos of the same subject at different focus, Providing the subject is still!

Macro Insects in Asia. by Gary Bridger

Macro Wildlife Photography.

A small Collection of some of the beauty and ugliness of the macro world that I see through my DSLR.

One of the most common photographs see everywhere now. Is the same approach where photographer's read back in the 80s An article that if you sprayed a living object, like a flower when doing macro, it gave life to the subject. Thats been taken to the extreme in todays macro world. It does not look natural, How many photographs do you see of dragon flies and flowers covered in droplets of water. If you going to do that , then get it right. So it looks like rain drops, Or mist.

I will show samples of this later, I hardly if at all use water spray. One reason If your subject is in bright sunlight, Droplets and scorch or damage the subject, Normally it will fly away. Or as a bonus, Start to clean itself. Then you go into movie mode.

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