Macro Photography and Creative Photography

Macro Photography is one of the kinds of photography I truly like because macro shows the detail at a large scale. Photographing something like a bugs eye gives a new meaning to how we view things because you can see the detail in the image as well as the texture in some cases. To achieve this photographers use special lenses known as macro photography lenses which magnify the subject with a 1:4 ratio but it rarely exceeds a 1:1 ration which makes a life sized image. 

Lenses aren't the only thing used for making a macro picture. If you have a extension tube it gives distance from the lens and sensor magnifying the subject being shot. Another way to achieve this would be to use a billowing system that connects to the front of the lens letting you shoot from the back glass of the lens. Another way to achieve a wide angle would be to attach a lens in reverse to another lens which would give a hint of a wide angle. 

 Another thing to take into consideration when doing macro photography is a limited depth of field. When shooting a small object the depth of field becomes extremely small and a higher f number is required to produce a sharp image. 

The creative photography section of the book was something that I enjoyed. I always like shooting photos of the moon and other such things like HDR images.  HDR meaning High Dynamic Range Imaging. With HDR you are combining a range of exposures with post capture software to collect all the detail in the shadows and the light.. It would be like taking the correct exposure for 10 images and then sandwiching them together to make one final image. 

Another way that photographers have become creative with photography is by adding a gyro stabilizer to the bottom of their camera so that with even the slightest human movement the gyro would counter weight that movement keeping the image still and sharp. A lot of this technology has now been introduced into the design of lenses and it is called VR or vibration reduction. 

Another one of my favorite kinds of photography is panoramic. The idea of taking 5-10 images one right next to each other to give a wide photograph is Ideal. When shooting Landscapes panoramics became a huge success because of the wide spread view.