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My name is Dmitri Gomon, I am a friend of Roland and also a new author of RL Cre­ative blog. My main hobby and pas­sion is pho­tog­ra­phy, more pre­cisely nature and macro pho­tog­ra­phy. Today I decided to write about lat­ter, since I have been work­ing mostly in style of macro-photography.

Peo­ple keep ask­ing me – “Why are you so fas­ci­nated with macro pho­tog­ra­phy? And how it all has begun?” Well, my first intro­duc­tion into macro-world hap­pened when bought a macro lens for my Canon A80 cam­era. With that rel­a­tively cheap acces­sory it changed my world entirely.

First of all, I tried to cap­ture some indoor objects – flow­ers, pen­cils water droplets. Until, I found a sleepy fly in my room and that fly became my first macro shot of an insect.

From this moment, sum­mer months for me became “happy hours”, since in Esto­nia (where I am from) only dur­ing sum­mer months most of the insects are com­ing to life.

In the fol­low­ing arti­cles I will describe in more details how I am tak­ing macro pho­tos, for now lets move on…

The answer is sim­ple — macro pho­tog­ra­phy is a close-up pho­tog­ra­phy. The word “­macro” came from Greek lan­guage ( ‘ОјО¬ОєПЃОї’ — big or far) and means that a pho­tog­ra­pher will be tak­ing shots of objects that will appear big on a final picture.

Term “­macro” in pho­tog­ra­phy rep­re­sents the abil­ity of cam­eras to focus close enough on objects so that on a final photo objects are seen mag­ni­fied. Dif­fer­ent cam­eras and lenses have var­i­ous mag­ni­fy­ing ratios – rang­ing from 1:2 (mag­ni­fi­ca­tion 0,5x) up to 5:1 (mag­ni­fi­ca­tion 5x) of real size. Those num­bers might be con­fus­ing, so to put it sim­ply – with 0,5x mag­ni­fi­ca­tion you can take a pic­ture of a but­ter­fly sit­ting on a flower; with 5x mag­ni­fi­ca­tion you are able to look inside the eye of that same butterfly.

How is macro shot taken, and how does it dif­fer from usual snapshot?

I will bring you one sim­ple exam­ple. If you are look­ing at some­thing from a dis­tance, let’s say an apple on a plate – it is a usual view­point where you will see just an apple and a plate. How­ever, if would move closer to the apple, you will see more details of that apple – peel’s struc­ture, its color and shape…

Exactly the same thing is needed for macro shot – you have to move your cam­era as close as pos­si­ble to the sub­ject to cap­ture it.

Main sub­jects of macro-photography?

To answer this ques­tion each per­son has to ask himself/herself. Since almost every­thing, could be cap­tured from close range, mak­ing it a macro photo. In my opin­ion, the main beauty of macro is to take close-up shots of reg­u­lar every-day things – mag­ni­fied view of a tree’s leaf, piece of a glass, candy, fruits, insects, ani­mal­s… this list is end­less, and it is lim­ited only by our imagination.

Con­sid­er­ing above-mentioned sub­jects of macro pho­tog­ra­phy, we can con­ven­tion­ally divide pho­tos of dif­fer­ent sub­jects into numer­ous cat­e­gories. For instance, shots of water-droplets, flow­ers, snowflakes… the mostly rep­re­sented cat­e­gory in macro pho­tog­ra­phy nowa­days are pho­tos of insects. Please take a look at pho­tos by var­i­ous macro-photographers at the end of my article.

If that topic sounds inter­est­ing to you, please come back soon, since in my next arti­cle I will be writ­ing about tech­niques I am using for tak­ing my macro-photos.

So bye-bye, and see you soon!

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