Many photographers think bright sunlight is required to reveal saturated color in flowers, autumn leaves, and other natural subjects. Actually, the opposite is true. Diffused daylight from an overcast sky is usually best. The incredible [...]
Need a fun project to try on a cold winter's day? Get an eye dropper and place some water drops on a CD or DVD. It's amazing. The colors are outrageous, and with cool lighting you can create some very surreal images. For the picture you see [...]
Here's something to play with over the vacation period - an escape from the emotional pressures of 'family' Christmas: just call it 'work'. The world of small things just beyond the familiar has always fascinated me - so much so that my courses and holidays [...]
So, you like the idea of doing macro photography, but you think you can’t afford it? Think again – with less than £10 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears (and blood, if you, like me, are a bit on the clumsy side), and you can [...]
Going 'larger than life' is not as hard as some make out. In the pre-digital era some folk made a great song and dance about the techniques mainly, I suspect, to make themselves look impressive. Maybe that sounds a bit irreverent – but I have no [...]
Water droplets as lenses So, how do you begin to get droplet images easily and consistently? Forgive what used to be a bit of high school science first but it might help your own experiments. I know in the dumbing-down process of education in the USA and [...]
Water is fascinating stuff. It is no surprise that water holds humans in thrall when it is an essential ingredient in our evolutionary past (to say nothing of present and future) and a major constituent of our bodies. Although I remember, with great affection, [...]
As someone brought up in the Welsh valleys, I thought I knew what rain was until I came to sunny Italy. For the past week boy has it rained, a deluge of almost biblical proportions so severe that I have found myself seriously looking at the wood store and [...]
I conduct a workshop twice a year in St. Louis to photograph exotic and colorful poison dart frogs (that are not poisonous in captivity because their diet is different than what they get in the jungle) and reptiles. The workshop is really all about macro [...]
Many editors of my photo books press me to include the aperture and shutter speed I used to take each shot. Before digital, I could use the fact 'I never write down my exposures' as an excuse to get round this. Today, with all revealed in the metadata, this [...]
I bet that most people these days come to wide-angle photography via the short-focus end of the ubiquitous, all-purpose zoom whether on an SLR, compact or prosumer camera. With wide angles there's always a sense of a quest, a sort of holy [...]
The first challenge with using flash for ‘macro’ work is to master exposure. So you do that...and then you get hyper-critical and find there are other hurdles to overcome. Hang on in there - soon, it becomes second nature to avoid pitfalls [...]
The Nikon R1C1 Close-up Speedlight Commander kit is a part of Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) employing iTTL (intelligent through–the-lens) control. With it I have made over 12,000 exposures in just over two years — enough for any [...]
Over the decades that I have used and built flash systems for close-up work, my goal has not changed: to create a set-up that is portable, reliable, consistent, robust and works on as near a 'point-and-shoot' basis as possible. I want to concentrate on the [...]
Having taken the complete leap of faith, switching to digital and never exposing another frame on film, lightboxes suddenly became redundant. I know many people who ditched them. Fortunately I never [...]
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