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How to Scan Your Film Using a Digital Camera and Macro Lens
Yesterday I wrote a post showing the high level of image quality you can achieve by scanning film using a digital camera rather than a film scanner. This post will describe my personal technique for...
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Shooting a Macro Liquid Splash Photo That Looks Computer Generated
I recently captured the macro liquid splash photograph above, and found that it came out looking like it was computer generated. Here’s a brief description of how the photo was created. Here’s a photo...
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Recipe for a Photograph: Reflected Ant on Black
One of my favorite recent projects was a deceptively simple image of an ant on black. Black is easy enough to arrange for the upper portions of a photo. Just make sure foreground lighting is powerful...
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Photos Showing the Beauty and Diversity of Seeds, Created Using a Scanner
In addition to being passionate about image making, photographer Svjetlana Tepavcevic is also an avid collector of seeds. After finding and collecting a new specimen, Tepavcevic creates a...
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Focus Stacking Macro Photographs with a Hacked Flatbed Scanner
Focus stacking is when you combine multiple photographs of different focus distances in order to obtain a single photo with a much greater depth of field than any of the individual shots. This can be...
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Beautiful Macro Photographs of Various Starfish Up Close
Alexander Semenov is an underwater photographer who doubles as a zoologist specializing in invertebrate animals. He recently decided to use macro photography to explore something you’ve probably never...
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Snowflake Macro Photos Captured Using a Canon PowerShot Compact Camera
Moscow, Russia-based photographer Alexey Kljatov shoots incredibly beautiful photographs of snowflakes on the open balcony of his home… using a custom compact camera kit. That’s right: rather than use...
View ArticleSlow Mo: Bubbles Popping Captured with a 18,000FPS Camera and a Macro Lens
What do popping soap bubbles look like up close and slowed down? That’s what Gav and Dan of The Slow Mo Guys recently decided to find out. They used a pricey and powerful high-speed camera: the...
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Macro Snowflake Photos Captured Using an iPhone and $5 Lens Add-On
We’ve shown you the snowflake photos you can achieve using a DSLR and a macro lens and also a point-and-shoot and a macro rig. Now, here’s what you can achieve using a smartphone. Photo enthusiast Ben...
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Shooting High-Resolution Macro Photos of Snowflakes
Winter can be a dull season for macro photographers. Many of the usual subjects are desolate, lifeless or invisible. However, there is one subject that’s often in abundance outdoors (depending on...
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Incredible Macro Photos of Insects with Drops of Water On Their Heads
Dmitriy Yoav Reinshtein is a 26-year-old photographer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He works as an advertising photographer and creative retoucher, but one of his personal passions is shooting highly...
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Photos of Insects in Flight Captured with a Custom Laser Beam Camera Rig
Back in 2010, we featured the beautiful macro bug photographs of a Belgian photographer named Frans, who uses a custom laser camera rig to capture insects mid-flight. Inspired by fotoopa’s work,...
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Photographer Shoots Eye-Popping Macro Photos of the Portugese Man O’ War
Fine art photographer Aaron Ansarov‘s project Zooids contains beautiful, colorful, and abstract images that might look to you like something biological seen through a microscope. They’re actually...
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Beautiful Photos Capture the Majesty of Waves Cresting and Crashing
All of his life, French photographer Pierre Carreau has been fascinated by the shape and movement of waves. It makes sense, then, that much of his photography revolves around the project “AquaViva” —...
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A Slow Motion Look at the Fujifilm X100S’ Shutter Speeds and Syncing
After reading the great reviews of the Fuji X100S, I decided to take the leap and buy one. I’ve been getting more interested in street photography lately, and this camera seemed like a good fit. Plus,...
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Focus-Stacked Macro Photos of Bugs by Photographer Nicolas Reusens
Photographer Nicolas Reusens has always been interested in insects, so when he purchased his first DSLR three years ago, he immediately dove into the art of macro photography. By using the technique...
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Beautiful Close-Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures
Photographer Joshua Lambus has put together a beautiful series of photographs showing luminous creatures of the deep glowing with light against a pitch-black background. The project is titled...
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Tabletop Photographer Puts His Toys to Good Use in Funny Miniature Scenes
Texas-based tabletop photographer JD Hancock is a self-proclaimed nerd. But he’s a nerd with a bent towards photography, and so the myriad action figures and toys he owns don’t just sit unattended in...
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Macro Time-Lapse Follows Flowers from Seed to Bloom
Capturing the growth or bloom of a flower is a staple of time-lapse photography, and therefore, it can be a bit banal. But photographer Daniel Csobot has managed to put a macro flower time-lapse...
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Cross Section Photos of Golf Balls Reveal the Diverse Beauty Within
Photographer James Friedman doesn’t play golf, but he had a collection of golf balls lying around. One day, he began to wonder what the guts of the golf balls look like, so he cut a ball open to take...
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