MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY : BEAUTY IN SMALL THINGS
Some people asked me this question quite often; What
is Macro photography ? Well, it is of course a field of photography which,
technically produces 1:1 magnification of the objects. In other words, the
objects you photograph will appear exactly the same size in your camera’s
sensor. Feeling confused ? it’s alright though because the concept of Macro is
quite complicated. I’m not going to give
you any tutorial or technique regarding Macro photography in this essay
(tutorial on how to do it will be given in the future post :D). I’m just going
give you the very basic introduction about macro photography and why you should
try doing this field of photography.
Normally, when we photograph an object, the reflection of the
object which enter the lens will be shrunk in the sensor (as in the picture
below). However, using dedicated macro lens (or other macro technique), the
reflection of the object will magnified at 1:1 or life-sized, giving the image
much more detail and magnification. Because of this,
the objects of macro photography tends to be small objects such as flowers, insects, and many others.
the objects of macro photography tends to be small objects such as flowers, insects, and many others.
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| in normal cases, the reflection of an object will be shrunk in the sensor |
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| using dedicated Macro lens, the reflection will appear at the same size as the actual object (magnification 1:1) |
Macro photography may be the least favourite field of
photography. The reason is that because we need a dedicated macro lens to do
it, which is definitely not cheap and lack of variant. However, as time goes
on, many alternative ways were found to accomodate this problem, which include
the use of Reverse ring and Extension tube.
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| an image of a flower I found in the bush around my house |
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| Macro photography object does not have to be flower or insect, it could be anything like a drop of water like above. |
Is it fun ? Well,
as I stated earlier that the objects of Macro photography are small things,
then technically you can do this photography EVERYWHERE ! you don’t have to go
to a certain faraway place to find an objects. You can look around and make
everything around you be the object; it could be a penny on your table, a
flower in your pot, a fly that come across your room, or even a drop of water,
anything can be your object.
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| Compound eyes of a fly |
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| The spider is less than 1 cm in size, but Macro photography allows us to see details of its body. |
So yeah, Macro photography allows us to see another world, a
micro world around us. It allows us to see colors and beauty of small things
that we tend to ignore, that’s the
fun part about Macro photography ! Of
course, we are going to need a lot of patient (I mean, A LOT !), to do Macro
photography and improves our skill, but everything had never been easy, right ? :)
See you in the next post on how to do Macro Photography !
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