Free Lens
2009
Macro Photography – Intro to Using a Macro Lens
At a certain moment in your photography career, you find that you have shot everything you can possibly think of shooting with your camera. You might even run out of ideas or lose interest because you think there is nothing more to take. One of the best cures for a situation like this is swinging by your local photo shop and getting a nice piece of gear to experiment with. There are lots of different accessories to choose from that can improve and challenge your skills, but the best place to start is with a new lens. One of the most useful and fun lenses to focus is the macro lens.
All 35mm camera lenses have some sort of ratio that can be used to describe the size of an object in the image compared to its size in real life. A traditional lens presents objects at much smaller than their actual size (imagine a life-sized photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge!) while macro lenses will achieve a ratio much closer to that of reality. Have you ever looked at a close up of a flower or a head of an ant? Chances are those photographs were shot with a macro lens.
There are several different types of macro lenses available. The most common ratio found on consumer-level equipment is roughly 1:2, meaning that subjects in the image on film will be their actual size. This may not seem like much, but when you enlarge the image and frame it to a 5×7 or 8×10, the final object is much bigger than in real life. Super high grade equipment can go up to a ratio of 5:1 which is powerful enough to look at a snowflake or explore the rough surface of a sponge. Depending upon your budget and the type of results you want, you can get a simple attachment for your normal lens or a full lens that attaches directly to your camera.
Macro Experiments
Once you have a macro lens and know how it works, you’ll start to see things in a whole new way. Even the most familiar of subjects or environments can become dramatically new and exciting when viewed from a different perspective, and a macro lens will certainly provide that to you. Heres some fun things to do with your new macro lens:
- Explore your house and get a bugs-eye view of your furniture, carpet, and surfaces.
- See how the lens expands your creativity by shooting common items in your neighborhood or house
- Set up a small space and see if you can duplicate catalog type images of small products like shooting an image of an ornate picture frame.
Macro lenses can have a great impact on how you see the world and provide you with a versatile alternative to shooting with a regular lens. You never know when you might need to make something tiny the center of focus and theres no better way to do it than by making it huge. Its also fun to take pictures of common objects at super-close range and see if your friends and family can figure out what the item is. Macro lenses can turn a table into a vast desert or grass into bladed mountains; feel free to let your imagination run wild.
While the cost of a dedicated (separate lens) macro can run you $200-400, youll find that the options it gives you and the inspiration it can provide are well worth the cost. Making mountains out of molehills may not work out for us in our jobs or personal relationships, but in photography it can be great fun. Besides, it’s the little things that make life interesting.
Free lensing / Lens wacking guide by Chung Dha
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