Macro photography is not just a gift to see big in small things, but a kind of philosophy of life. A philosophy that makes it possible to discern in a pleasant trifle one of the eternal truths and in a subtle detail – a work of art. It is customary to call macro photography the shooting of objects comparable in size to the size of a film frame (sensor) or much smaller than it. Macro photography is no different from the usual one: here, one needs to focus in the same way, measure the exposure, set the aperture and shutter speed.
Technical and scientific photography can be an element of the research process or an illustration to it. You cannot do without macro photography when studying, say, entomology. It is safe to say that most of the scientists working in this scientific field are talented photographers (Entomology Today). Since the 1950s – 60s, such a genre of macro photography as the macro-still life has also been known. Taking photographs of curved reflective surfaces, as well as artificial and natural textures using various printing and photomontage techniques, has fascinated photographers for almost a century. Macro photography is developing in parallel with art photography and surreal photography. Art photography is infinitely far from realism. The more imagination the author puts into the depicted object, the closer he is to the genre of art photography. The attention of macro photographers to the cute little things of life is adjacent to the most insane experiments.
One should not strive for maximum increases. The most common mistake of amateur photographers is the desire to shoot larger. Experimenting in the genre of macro photography, one can feel like a theater director building a mise-en-scène. However, it should be stated that the scale of shooting should depend on the scene, not on the capabilities of your optical system.
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Entomology Today. Photographing insects in the field: Basic tips for success. Web.