Macro photography

Macro Photography

Macro is the name for close up photography this is usually of things sutch as flowers and insects. Macro photography sometimes is images that represent 1:1 scale meaning that images when developed of the film is the same size as the actual object.

All of that my images that i have taken i have used both natural light as well as flash's the reason for this is because you need to get close in on subjects it can sometimes mean that light is a issue and requires more light to be able to take the image well.

My first shot that i have taken is of a tulip slower this was taken at a 1:2 ratio, the reason i like this image is because of the shallow depth of field the image has, this means that the flower is in focus while everything around it is blurred and out of focus. I like this as it brings more attention to the tulip.

My second image for this is a photo of a rose and other flowers from a bunch, this one was done alot differently than my other as this was done in a fully dark room using a off camera flash to the right of the camera. To do this i used a Flashgun to the right and connected to my camera using a TTL cord. I had the flash on it set manually at 1/8 the focus point i had set for this image was the rose and i used a low aperture to blur the others around the rose.

My final Image i have taken for macro is of another tulip in the garden, i took this while the weather was raining because of this the tulip was closed and the tulip had water on it, I like this as it gives it more character and gives something more for the viewer to look at. To take this image i set the aperture as low as possible and then adjusted ISO and shutter speed so that the image was exposed properly.