Flash Tips For Macro Photography

You can make photography journey much easier by following this one simple macro photography tip. Use your cameras’ flash function or better still a speed light, ring flash or twin light setup, to obtain a fast shutter speed. Those who use a dedicated macro lens for macro photography will understand how hard it is to […]

10 Essential Tips for Macro Photography

We start with our very best essential tips. Apply the following tips and your macro photos will improve, which in turn will give you so much more enjoyment and satisfaction in this very hard photography genre. Aperture. Just because your dedicated macro lens goes down to F/2.8 doesn’t mean you need set it at F/2.8. […]

Our Best Macro Photography Tips

Shown below is a set of ten amazing macro images with macro photography tips for the relevant image. Each photograph also includes an explanation of the camera equipment that was used and camera settings. Many of the images below have been taken with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens, the settings can be reproduced with any […]

Difference Between Macro Micro and Close Up Photography

There is often much confusion amongst new photographers between macro, micro close up difference and how each photography genre differs from one another. For starters, macro micro photography usually refers to the same thing. Nikon names their range of ‘macro lenses’ with the word ‘micro’. Canon on the other hand, calls them macro lenses. For example, Nikons top macro […]

How I took a macro photo of a water droplet

One of the main advantages of using a digital SLR camera, is that you can focus on a subject directly through a sheet of glass. This is exactly what I did to capture the macro image of a water droplet as shown below. Macro Water Drop Digital SLR Camera: Canon EOS 400D / Rebel XTi DSLR […]