Macro Photography

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How to Use Macro Photography
Macro photography is taking close-up pictures of very small objects or larger objects usually photographed from a distance. It's a great way to get some unique shots and see objects in ways you might have never noticed them, because the potential subjects are endless, you can practice macro photography inside on rainy days when you can't take pictures of anything else. Like the rug, flowers, water, etc.
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Macro Photography
Using a special-purpose lens called a macro lens, having a long barrel for close focusing. There are different categories of macro lenses, depending on the focal length:
* 50–60mm range typically used for product photography and small objects
* 90–105mm range the standard focal range used for insects, flowers, small objects
* 150–200mm range gives more working distance — typically used for insects and small animals
* a few zooms provide a macro option, but they generally do not allow a 1:1 magnification

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Close Up and Macro Photography
Macro photography allows us to bring a small part of the world to larger than life proportions. Bugs, flowers, and blades of grass become skyscrapers populated by unusual beings that don't meet the average eye. With macro photography, your back yard can become a treasure trove of subjects.

Introduction to Close-up and Macro Photography
True macro images are those that show the subject at a 1:1 or life size, like capturing the same size on your image or film as it is in real life. Macro lenses will provide type of magnification or greater while many popular zoom lenses are really “Close-up” lenses and not true macro lenses. Even when using a macro lens, it don't always shoot at life size or 1:1 but at lower magnifications to get the composition wanted for a pleasing image.
When shooting close-up photography, it’s not truly macro. Most of popular close-up zooms allow a close-up magnification of around a 1:4 ratio size. When these pictures are printed to the typical size, they are enlarged to bring them to the 1:1 ratio or greater.

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Garden Flowers
Close-up photography is as easy as mounting an autofocus, tele-macro lens on your single-lens reflex camera, mounting your camera on a tripod for stability, loading a media card, framing a favorite subject in the viewfinder and pressing the shutter release button.

ONE STEP FURTHER
Set your camera on Aperture Preferred mode to make photograph sharp or to blur background. Use a reflector board to bounce light onto subject and soften harsh shadows. Use an electronic flash to eliminate shadows and brighten highlights.

Pro-Tip
Place a piece of colored paper behind a flower to let the flower stand out in the picture.Colored paper. Also eliminates a busy background of unattractive branches, etc. Support the paper with a couple of sticks securely planted in soil behind the flowers. Place water drops on leaves with a spray bottle to give flowers the look of early morning dew. Do not take any flower pictures aimlessly. Pick one flower and concentrate on photographing it.

FINAL TOUCH
Make large blow-ups of your close-up pictures. Frame and hang them on your living room walls. Large blow-ups in frames make truly outstanding artwork.

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Your Macro Photography Using a Tripod and the Self-Timer

It's often difficult to hold the camera perfectly steady no matter what the distance is. But in macro photography, because it'll be up so close, the focus range for the image is very limited. The slightest movement will cause the picture to be blurred. That's why Erin recommends using a tripod when you shoot macro photography.

Camera shake can also cause your image to be blurred.

Wind can cause your subject to move and appear out of focus.

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How to Do Macro Insect Photography
Trillions of insects, bugs, and spiders that inhabit Earth can make some of the most fascinating and dramatic close-up photography. Insects offer the macro photographer an unlimited amount of color and texture to explore. They are unique as we are and obviously much more plentiful.
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True macro produce an image that is as big or bigger on the film plane as it is in real life. Like the picture down here is like from normal small then it gets bigger and closer to the bug. This is using from normal picture to macro photography. But its called the effects of magnification.

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Macro photo of ant dragging a spider

Macro photography is looks fun and real challenging when you try to capture moving insects.
I believe the ant is some kind of wood ant, but I have no idea what species the spider is.
I bet some of the readers have the knowledge.

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Use a Tripod - in macro photography a tripod can be particularly useful, even if you’re just shooting with a compact camera. Keeping camera still not only improves shots, getting rid of camera shake, but it allows you to play around with different settings without losing composition.

Aperture - once in macro mode some cameras will not allow to make many other adjustments but are able to play with aperture settings it can be well worthwhile to do so. As covered in Aperture tutorials, the main thing that aperture impacts is the depth of field of shots. Choose a small big number if you want a large depth of field with everything in focus or a large aperture if you just want main subject in focus. In macro photography you’ll

probably want a shallow depth of field so select the largest aperture available.

Focusing -in macro photography it is helpful to have full control over focusing, especially when you have shallow depth of fields where it is all the more important to make sure the right part of shot is in focus. The camera allows manual focusing select this option and manually focus on the part of subject that is the main point of interest.

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Macro Lens/Close-Up Filter

In insect macro photography, close-up filters and macro lens are most essential items to compliment any digital cameras. A digital camera's built-in macro capability is unable to achieve magnification good enough to capture fine details of most insects. The macro mode of most cameras require to be as close as 2-3 cm away from the subject. This is way too close, most insects will naturally flee when something gets this near. Zooming doesn't help too, because the magnification is too little.
A close-up filter or macro lens has wonderful capability that solves issue. It actually reduces the distance the camera requires to focus. When this distance is reduced, the magnification is increased. Imagine looking at an object at a distance with your eyes. Now, move your eyes closer to the object. Does it seems bigger? Close-up filters and macro lens have a fixed focusing distance, depending on the diopter rating, regardless of what camera you use.