Macro lighting diffusion is a pathway that many a macro photographer will tell is fraught with confusion, consternation, and frustration. This can be confounded even more especially when photographing subjects with greater levels of reflective qualities, beetles, and certain flying insects.
Blue Banded Bees are an exquisitely colored species of Bee that calls Okinawa home. By day one may see a flash of Cyan as the diminutive pollinator travel from flower to flower in their search for nectar.
Photographing Frogs as a Macro Photographer I learned a long time ago any thoughts of this being a glamorous shoot should be stowed and discarded, like, forever!
Macro Photography can be, and often is, an invite to premature baldness! Trying to stalk skittish winged prey around a daylight scenario is nothing short of madness on a stick!
Macro Photography has always been something I’ve been drawn to both on land and below the waves. My fascination with this diminutive side of nature is transfixed with the way we can look at the world and objects in ways that are simply overlooked. Take water refraction for example. How many of us have actually walked around a park or green space in the early morning hours and noted the amount of dew on the foliage? Most of us, right? […]
Macro photography diffusion is the key to accomplishing great macro imagery. I mean we can have all the best camera gear in the world but manufacturers cater to the mean common denominator and thus don’t look to make things more complex than maybe they need to be. In this regard that is fully understandable. I mean no one wants to have to open a piece of equipment straight off the shelf and then have to take a degree in how […]