Getting great macro photos

Getting down low in important

Macro photography is an interesting form of photography. You can do it everywhere, in home, your garden, the street.

For example a wall, a wall has lines, indentations. In there you can find textures and insects. A recurring texture makes a great look for a photograph. Insects can be interesting because the color of the brick and the pattern of the bricks.








Top tips:

• Get down low. When you are laying on the ground trying to photograph an insect you have more background options than if you are pointing your camera to the ground.
  
• You don't need a macro lens to shoot macro. a 50mm lens can create great close up photographs. If you want to get closer but you don`t want to degrade your image quality: buy extension tubes. because the extension tubes dont add glass in front of behind your lens. And if you buy a real macro lens you can still use extension tubes. With the extension tubes you can get more than one to one magnification.
• Use a flash. With a flash you add light to the scene. The flash can freeze fast movement or accentuate textures in you image. Another reason to use a flash is so you can shoot with a larger depth of field. The depth of field is a side effect of how big your aperture is. A large aperture results in to a small depth of field. Meaning less of your photo is infocus.  But in macro a small aperture has a small depth of field. So when you want more than a milimeter of your photo in focus you need an aperture of F/14. A F/14 aperture lets in a very small amount of light.

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