Macro Photography Lesson

What is Macro Photography?

Macro Photography is the idea of taking a close-up photograph of real life objects. Its main purpose is to give a life like size to something small such as flowers or insects.

In macro photography you want your image to be sharp so that it can illustrate something that was not otherwise visible to the human eye. For example, look at this image below of an insect

Notice how clearly you can see the hairs on the insect as well as the outline of the leaf.

In order to take the best macro photograph, it is important to consider the following two tips

1. You can engage your camera into macro mode via the settings
1. Note if you explore this option it could begin to affect your aperture which in turn could change your lighting
2. You can manually set everything up (zooming, lighting, distance, depth etc.)

It is recommended to use a small aperture which would allow you to create a more detailed focus on the object/subject you are trying to photograph.

Notice how there is not much depth to any of these photographs. The photographer is aiming to focus on elements of these insects/amphibians that are invisible without the macroscopic perspective.

Video of Macro Photography

In order to better understand how to take a macro photograph, watch this video.