Macro Photography

Extension tubes work just like a bellows. They are simply hollow tubes that you mount between the lens and the camera body. Like ...

Depth Of Field: Depth of field can be defined as the area of a photograph that is in acceptably sharp focus. That area of sharp ...

As we’ve previously discussed, for most of our macro/close-up photos we will need to position the lens very close to the subject ...

Or we may choose to keep everything as sharp as possible and have the whole photo be in sharp focus. (A smaller aperture.) And o ...

What tends to be confusing for most of us - in our quest to understand aperture - is that the aperture size (f-stop number) seem ...

Another “fix” for our depth of field problem doesn’t really change the depth of field, but changes the way we are shooting the s ...

The further you get away from the plane of focus, the less sharp the image becomes. So, the obvious solution is to make sure tha ...

Chapter 3: Light The final lens issue we’ll discuss here is light, but since it usually requires some additional equipment, we’l ...

Antlers are what we call it when branches, feet or anything else appears to be sticking out of our subject’s head. Don’t know wh ...

When looking through the viewfinder it may appear that you have plenty of light, but generally you won’t have nearly enough. A s ...

While they are convenient and easy to work with, you don’t really need to go out and buy a set of reflectors, virtually any refl ...

Good news and bad news. The good news is that you probably already have a flash unit for your camera. The bad news is that it pr ...

BTW – while the bracket shown above is not the ideal solution for your macro/close-up work, no really good wedding photographer ...

There IS another type of flash unit that will work AND you can leave on the camera. It is a “ring flash”. This is a unit that ac ...

Notice the reflections in the eyes of the insect in the previous photo. Obviously a ring light was used for this one. They are a ...

This doesn’t actually increase the amount of light on the scene, but since the shutter is open longer, there’s more time for mor ...

But, what if we don’t want to show movement? In that case, a slower shutter speed won’t work because it allows the camera time t ...

In normal photos, that isn’t much of an issue. Let’s face it, in the grand scheme of things - with normal photography - a bug th ...

The lower the film speed the more light that is required to get a proper exposure. Since we photographers are always struggling ...

In digital photos, it works the same way. A higher ISO will introduce digital “noise”. The higher the ISO the “noisier” it gets. ...