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Macro Safari: Turn Your Backyard Into a Photo Adventure
Yesterday was a rainy, hazy day at home. I didn’t feel much like going anywhere but I needed to find something to do that didn’t involve sitting or work. I decided to break out one of my macro lenses...
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Fotodiox’s DLX Stretch Adapters Have Built-in Macro Extension Tubes
Fotodiox has announced a great new set of lens adapters for mirrorless cameras. The Fotodiox Pro DLX Stretch adapters allow for mounting third-party lenses onto a number of major camera mounts, as...
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How to Photograph Bugs on a White Background in the Field
In this 9-minute video by photographer Phil Torres of The Jungle Diaries, learn how to photograph bugs and other insects on a white background while out on location. By using a diffused twin flash,...
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Canon Unveils a Macro Twin-Flash and 3 Macro Tilt-Shift Lenses
Fresh from Canon, this morning the popular camera manufacturer has unveiled a new macro twin-flash system, as well as its first macro tilt-shift lenses — and there’s three of them. Canon Macro...
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High Magnification at a Low Price: How I Built a Super Macro Rig for $230
Last year, I bought a macro lens for the summer. Just a normal one with 1x magnification. I fell into a beautiful and mesmerizing world of minuscule flowers and bugs. I found that in macro...
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Why Every Photographer Should Own a Macro ‘Swiss Army’ Lens
The biggest misconception with macro lenses is in the name, photographer Peter McKinnon says. In this 3-minute video, he explains why a macro lens should be in every photographer’s kit bag. The thing...
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Shooting Boiling Water with a Macro Lens and Colored Lights
Recently, I’ve become interested in photographing boiling water in a glass tea kettle. It may sound boring and uninteresting, but with the right lighting, you can get some truly fascinating images. It...
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I Shot Macro Photos That Capture the Beauty of Peacock Feathers
My name is Can Tunçer. I’m a photographer living in Turkey, and I have been shooting macro photographs for about 7 years now. As someone who likes to photograph the tiny details of nature, I recently...
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10 Macro Photo Tips for Beginners
In this article, I’ll be sharing 10 macro photography tips for beginners who are just starting out in the genre. #1. Lens There are several good lens options for macro photography. You could use...
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Incredible Chemical Reactions Caught on Camera
Beauty of Science is a project that wants to engage people with science through stunning macro photos and videos of chemical reactions. Photographer Wenting Zhu of Hefei, China, captures the...
View ArticleMagnets and Iron Powder Were Used to Make this Mesmerizing Short Film
Photographer and filmmaker Roman De Giuli has created a new short film titled Matereality. The visual effects in the 3.5-minute video were created using iron powder, highly reflective pigments, and...
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How I Capture Vibrant Colors Inside Snowflakes
Having photographed snowflakes for nearly a decade as a large component to my career as a photographer, I’ve had the joy of encountering mysteries in the snow and the enthusiasm to sort out the...
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How to Shoot Macro Snowflake Photos at Home
This is my account of how I’ve fallen in love with snowflake photography… I’ve spent the better part of my life photographing nature’s smallest details. My early years of shooting botanicals...
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Sigma’s New 70mm f/2.8 is the First Art Series Macro Lens
Sigma has just announced the 70mm f/2.8 Macro, the first macro lens to be released in the Art lineup. Bucking modern day trends, Sigma says it has focused more on optical performance than autofocus...
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The Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra-Macro: A $399 Full-Frame 5:1 Lens
Venus Optics has just announced its new Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra-Macro lens, an “affordable extreme macro option for full frame cameras.” The lens provides a magnification range of 2.5:1 to 5:1...
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The $399 Laowa 25mm Macro Lens vs the $1,050 Canon MP-E 65mm
In January 2018, I had the opportunity to test a pre-production version of Laowa’s first lens in 2018, the Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x. It is a niche high magnification macro lens touted to be the answer...
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This is the World’s First Terapixel Macro Photo
Say hello to the world’s first terapixel macro photo. The photo is of a food mosaic, and it was made by stitching together 629,370 separate photos. The final image has dimensions of 6,571,152×160,256...
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Photos That Show Similarities Between the Human Body and Nature
Visual Exercises is a new photo project by Polish fine art and portrait photographer Alicja Brodowicz, who hunted for similarities between the human body and nature created diptychs of her findings. I...
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6 Reasons Why You Should Be a Macro Photographer
Maybe you’re a beginner, just got your first camera, and you’re trying to learn to navigate the world of photography. Or you’ve been photographing for a while, but you’re looking for something...
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The Laowa 24mm f/14 2x Macro Probe is a ‘Weird but Revolutionary’ Lens
Venus Optics today officially announced the Laowa 24mm f/14 2x Macro Probe, one of the weirdest-looking lenses you’ll ever lay eyes on. At the same time, it also aims to be one of the most...
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