Macro close up photography (Definition,Image bank,Straight images)

Definition-

A form of photography in which the subject of the photograph is usually very small or is a very small detail of a larger object. The resultant Photograph is larger than life size.

Macro photographs are taken from extreme close-up range. This allows the image on the sensor plane to be equal to life size or greater. Normally this is achieved with special photographic lenses called macro lenses. However, there are a range of other ways to achieve the same end, for example:

• Close-up lenses (close-up rings)
• Reversed lens mounted on the camera using a “reverse ring mount adapter”
• Extension tubes: Extend the lens’ focal length enabling it to enlarge
• Bellows: Extend the lens’ focal length enabling it to enlarge

Even though macro photography produces wonderful photographs, working in extreme close-up range with a subject creates problems as the depth of field is very shallow when focussing so close. Typically you may have only a few millimetres in the sharp zone of your image. As a result a small aperture is often required to maintain as much sharpness as possible. This tends to require long exposures which makes photographing moving objects difficult. Stronger lighting is often needed to for good results when using a macro lens.

Image Bank-

I choose this photo because its quite interesting, as normal macro photos of flowers would just be of plan flowers and obviously as close up macro photography doesn't really give a broad depth of field so only certain parts of the photo in focus but the whole flower is the same so the bit that has focus on it doesn't really show anything going on, but in this photo the section of the shallow field shows the water droplets in great detail, whilst the rest of the flower is blurred into the background. Because this photo was taken with a macro lens its not only allowed the viewers to see water droplets on the flower but the really small droplets are visible and by looking at the leaf you can almost feel the softness of the leaf. I would love to re-create this photon one of my shoots but i find it quite hard to capture water droplets and i would have to wait until its rained to give the photo a more natural water droplet look, instead of just pouring on mater myself, because i feel like that will spoil the photo and make it harder to get the little drops. 

Straight Images-

All of the objects for this series of macro photos were found in a potpourri bowl, a mixture of flowers sticks and numerous other things. I was searching around my house for the perfect items to take some macro photography on, firstly i took photo of some of the plants in my room but then i realised this bowl had all these different small items with different textures and colours and it would turn out really nice. So I used the bowl of potpourri and picked out the individual time stat i had used, i tried to use the items with the most texture and shape to them so that i could capture the most interesting photos. For some of the items i left hone in their place, like the bottom two of the wood. But for all of the others i had to move them to certain positions still within the bowl so that i could capture them in the best way without other items getting in the way. So like the first photo in the top left hand corner, i had t place it onto of soothing so that the light from the window, which is directly behind this, would shine through the object because its quite thin, and because of me using a macro lens i managed to just capture the object in the centre of the frame, without showing the window behind it. For the majority of the photos, i managed to capture them in the central section of the frame allowing them to mostly be in focus, as i found it a bit difficult because it was my first time using a macro lens. out of all of the images, i find the left side more appealing aesthetically and just i find the images in general are of better quality because what i wanted to capture is in focus, especially the orange, as i tried quite had to get a god images of the orange, but every photo i took, the whole thing was out of focus. From doing this technique, i did enjoy experimenting with it because it really captures objects in their best light and shows of the detail within them. So I think that i will use this technique within further work. Probably to capture more objects like this, so trees, as i think tees a lot of detail in things like these objects that a person would overlook on first glance. But by photographing these objects with a macro lens i can show people the real detail within these objects.