How to become a professional in Macro Photography

Macro Photography By MagdalenaWasiczek

WHAT IS MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY?

Macro Photography is means taking photographs of small things or tiny subjects such as insects, water droplets,spider web,etc etc. In photography point of view 'MACRO’ refers to the magnification of the subjects into life-sized images in the film plane or digital sensor, which has little to do with how close the camera is to the subjects.



Close-up Photography is also known as Macro photography


For Good Macro photographs you need a good Macro lens or a Dedicated Macro lens or you can switch your macro settings in your DSLR,POINT N SHOOT cameras.A dedicated macro lens which can capture image magnification at 1:1 ratio. However, macro lenses are quite costly and not everyone will have this specialty lens as part of their camera gear. It doesn’t mean that you can no longer take gorgeous macro-like pictures with your point-and-shoot or DSLR that has a standard lens.

Beautiful water droplet on a leaf 

One of the best and most thing you will be notice that as you take macro pictures is that the images you capture show such large amounts of detail that you normally would not notice. Macro Photography brings our attention to such tiny tiny details that are easily overlooked because they are so small subject. Like fascinating lines,detail view of eyes, shapes, colors, patterns, forms and textures suddenly appear and are appreciated for their beauty.

A beautiful eye macro photography 

Nature is the best Subject To Photographs your Macro Shots

beautiful insect macro by filan 

beautiful insect macro by filan 

You can start your macro photography as taking subject to Nature because nature gives us the real beauty and there are too many kind of tiny beauties are present in nature like Insects and creepy crawlies, leaves and flowers.Flowers and bugs are often colorful and full of intricate details that make them fun and rewarding subjects to shoot.

The Basic Compositional Rules You need 

You are taking close-up photographs or macro photographs with a dedicated macro lens or with a digital camera having macro/close-up shot facilities that does not mean that you are not required any COMPOSITIONAL rule or THE RULE OF THIRD.The Rule of Thirds, balance, leading lines, and perspective still apply, and will certainly add visual impact to your images. Also, don’t be afraid to experiment with macro photography during post-processing.