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Stunning Macro Photographs of Animal Eyes
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in the case of Suren Manvelyan‘s macro photography, it’s just in the eye. After his extreme close-up photos of both human and animal eyes went viral...
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Photographer Captures Outdoor Scenes Inside His Tiny Indoor Studio
So you want to create stirring nature documentaries. You could go the National Geographic way and risk trench-foot, snakebite and more in pursuit of the scenic wild. Or you could take the Boris...
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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
Categories: Educational InspirationTags: 18000fpsbubblesfpsmacrophantomslowmoslowmotionsoapbubblesuperslowmotiontheslowmoguysWhat do popping soap bubbles look like up close and slowed down? That’s what...
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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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Intense Macro Photos of Ants Battling to the Death
Want to see some action-packed photographs on a really small scale? Look no further than photographer Alex Wild‘s collection of photos titled “Ants Fighting.” It’s a series of macro photographs...
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Stunning Macro Photos of Bees Courtesy of the US Geological Survey
Once in a while we stumble across a great archive of public domain or creative commons imagery that just blows us away. Sometimes it’s historical photos, other times beautiful photos from space, but...
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Turn Your Smartphone Into a Microscope and Macro Photography Stand for Only $10
If you’ve followed PetaPixel for a little while, you’ll already know that a laser pointer’s focus lens can be put to good DIY use helping you take macro photos with your smartphone. And even though...
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Talented French Photogs Create Miniature Worlds Using Figurines and Food
Sorry, Mom, but playing with your food rocks. Especially if you do it with the imagination and exacting detail that French photographers Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle have poured into their series...
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ZEISS Adds 50mm f/2.8 Portrait/Macro Lens to Its APS-C Touit Lineup
ZEISS is touting its latest release as a “perfect” portrait lens with serious Macro chops to boot — a 50mm, f/2.8 model for APS-C cameras sporting Sony E and Fuji X mounts. The new addition to the...
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Mesmerizing (or Terrifying?) Macro Photos of Spiders Staring Straight at the...
Macro photographs of insects are nothing new; and yet, Malaysian Jimmy Kong‘s photographs of spiders staring straight at the camera are immediately captivating and at least a tiny bit terrifying. Kong...
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Captivating Microscopic Time-Lapse Video Captures the Formation of Snowflakes
This is just plain beautiful, no matter which way you slice it. Using the magic of time-lapse photography and microscopy, Vyacheslav Ivanov captured the formation of those ice crystals we call...
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Breathtaking Microscope Photos of Moth & Butterfly Wings
Birdwing butterfly vein junction The thing about nature is that, if you look close enough at just about anything, you’re bound to find a beauty and symmetry that defies description. In the case of...
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