macro photography
A lightweight set-up for wide angle macro to give you more depth of field
Jul 6, 2017
Nicky Bay
I like experimenting with different setups, especially for wide angle close-ups. Last year, I took my wife’s Sony A7 for a couple of field trips and paired it…
I swapped out my macro to shoot butterflies with a 300mm lens on a Nikon D500
Jul 4, 2017
Jake Mosher
Every year, on the cusp of true, Rocky Mountain summer, I travel to the high country to photograph butterflies. For a brief couple of weeks,…
A review of the Olympus STF-8 twin macro flash system for Micro Four Thirds
Jun 20, 2017
Nicky Bay
Last year, Olympus Singapore loaned me a pre-launch unit of their new STF-8 Twin Macro Flash, together with their OMD-EM1 Mk1 and M.Zuiko Digital ED…
Take your studio outside with this field macro photography guide
May 23, 2017
John Aldred
The world of macro photograph is one that can absorb a photographer completely. You start off simple, perhaps with a reversing ring photographing small things…
How to do macro photography on a budget and with a kit lens
May 14, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you’d like to explore macro photography and you’re not willing to invest thousands of dollars in professional macro lenses, photographer Adam Kappa has quite…
Sample footage with weirdest lens ever: Laowa 24mm f/14 telescopic macro lens
Mar 13, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
After releasing the world’s widest 1:1 macro lens, Venus Optics have announced another pretty unusual lens. Their Laowa 24mm f/14 telescopic macro lens looks quite…
This timelapse shows the fingertips sweating from up close
Feb 24, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
You already know there are hundreds of millions of sweat pores on your skin. But have you ever seen them in action? Timelapse Vision has…
How to make a DIY DSLR mount for your microscope
Feb 15, 2017
John Aldred
Looking through microscopes was something that always fascinated me as a kid. It attracted me for the same reasons things like timelapse and ultra slow…
A simple setup for taking fantastic snowflake photos
Feb 13, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
There are plenty of ways to take photos of snowflakes. Some are complicated, some are simple, and some are DIY to the max. Photographer Chrissy…
How and why you should use a diopter – “a poor man’s macro lens”
Dec 23, 2016
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you are into macro photography, you probably already have a macro lens. Or three. And in this case you know how much they cost….