Photography shows us the world around us. Using a telephoto lens gives us a close up view of things we could normally not get near enough to appreciate in it finer detail. Macro photography enables us to see the finer details that are near but too small to be appreciated.
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If you’re the proud owner of an amazing point and shoot style camera, this article might only be of informational value to you. But if you’ve got either a film or digital SLR camera you’ve already been confronted with the sometimes dizzying array of lens choices. Do you want ultra-wide angle, super fast action, or detailed macro prime glass? What does all of that even mean?
Well lens choices all come down to what you really want to take pictures of, because each lens has various features that are better for one type of photo or another. So what are the biggest features and things to look out for? Well, to answer that I’ll try to organize everything by not feature, but by type of photography. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you ever marveled at those pictures of close-up objects where you can’t hardly even tell what it is you’re looking at? Or what about those amazing shots of the rainbow colored insects that seem almost as if they were a life-size animal caught roaming the underbrush of some far away jungle. 
All of these types of photographs fall into the special category of Macro Photography.
Macro photography is somewhat of a diverse selection of photographic tastes. You’ll find one group of people that shoot primarily smaller bug-type things or water droplets on flowers. Others like to zoom up on seemingly mundane household objects (pencil erasers, burnt match-heads, etc) and see what they look like magnified by 20x. Still others like to capture miniature scenes in doll-houses or mock-ups of battles with tiny little toy soldiers. Basically, though, if it’s small and you can somehow capture it with your camera, it’ll fall under the heading of macro photography.
So if you’re interested in trying out a little bit of this kind of photography, where do you start? First of all, you have to decide if your Read the rest of this entry »