Thursday, January 30, 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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60mm macro flash


60mm macro soft off flash 


60mm 400d flash 


60mm 400 d flash


60mm flash


60mm 30d ring flash 


60mm ring flash 7d


60mm ring flash and off flash 7d 


60mm off flash 7d


60mm off flash 7d


70-200 & 200 mm 7d 


60mm flash 7d 


60mm flash 7d


60mm flash 7d


60mm flash 7d


60mm flash 7d


200 mm cropped 


60 mm 


This crystal is a sugar grain taken with + 3 extension and 60 mm ring flash 


60mm off flash 7d Side of subject about 8mm 


Still not ID this insect, 60mm ring flash. 


60mm macro day light, ISO 800 


60 mm 


60mm off soft flash 


60mm 


60mm ring flash


60mm daylight. 

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!