No doubt everyone has at least once in their life taken a macro picture. These close-up photos trap our eyes and their effect is somewhat near to casting a spell. You feel involved in the spheres of existence you seldom happen to notice at all. Macro is a magnifying glass used to glorify the multidimensionality of the visible world.
What do people usually place under their camera lens? Perhaps, the range of the objects being photographed in this way is boundless. Plants, flowers, small animals, drops of water – in fact anything you’d like to intensify in greatness and detailed elaboration.
My favourite models are insects with their colorfulness and unbelievable variety of forms. They are probably the easiest “sitters” of all because if they are bright and eye-catching, the pics will be the same. But they are usually constantly moving and you are more likely to get blurred photos or the composition will be chaotic. In case with butterflies you should learn to be as quiet as a mouse – don’t make hasty movements, don’t produce any sounds, move the camera slowly towards the object. As you see, it is not the best way for the beginners (or impatient photographers), so you’d better start up with flowers or autumn leaves – anything that is fixed.
By the way, macro photography is not only about natural objects. Any kind of synthetic surface is going to become a stunning material for a macro picture. Like in all other cases, never stop experimenting. I’m not sure whether professional photographers follow this way but I guess the more pictures you take, the better stuff you get in the end. I usually get one satisfactory photo out of a hundred of macro snapshots.
You know, it is almost impossible to show all the macro pictures that amaze me – I just picked out a few of those which give me the creeps (creeps of admiration, of course!).
These two are mine. Naturally, they could hardly be held as masterpieces but still I love them.
If you’ve got any nice macro pictures of yours, please put them into Photo section. It would be fantastic to pile up a whole collection of macro-viewed things!
That's incredible!!! Macro photography is the thing that makes me puzzled. The world is not investigated enough yet. We're trying to understand the mysteries of the Universe. But there's one more world, the "microworld". It's really admirable! By the way, I do like your snapshot of a butterfly. For me that's definitely a masterpiece.
Wow, this is the World I have never known before but feel I would like to fix me eyes on these wonderful tiny little objects of nature until I feel really hungry to regain consciousness! This is a method and a vision.
