Spiders – Macro Photography Examples

Garden Orb Spider



Photography is an addiction. A person afraid of spiders can spend hours in garden to shoot a Garden Orb.

Jumping Spider



Jumping spider on green background – ready for action!

Spider catches Honeybee



The spider did his dinner with honeybee and preserved one for next day’s breakfast! LOL!!!

Wolf Spider



With 8 eyes and 8 legs wolf spider don’t use webs to catch their prey.

Itsy Bitsy Spider



Photographers are artists. They not only enclose right moments within frames, they write great poems as well. LOL.

DSLR OR Digital Point and Shoot with Macro Mode

Darren Rawse of Digital Photography School considers the photographers with a DSLR lucky over those who do not have a DSLR. However, he suggests photographers to explore the macro mode of compact point and shoot cameras while practicing macro photography.

Though the quality of DSLR image is much more superior than the images shot with point and shoot cameras, the images can be made presentable by keeping the macro mode on.

However, majority of professional still photographers prefer DSLR cameras. The reasons are:

• Options to select one of various interchangeable lenses
• DSLR cameras enable photographers to view an accurate preview
• Larger sensors (most compact point and shoot cameras have smaller sensors)
• DSLR sensors are almost of same size as traditional film formats
• Modern DSLRs provide live preview
• Wide range of lens aperture – starting from f/1.0 to f/32

However, if you haven’t got your DSLR yet, don’t get disappointed. Go through Darren’s macro photography tips for point and shoot camera users.

25 beautiful macro photography shots

The Monday Inspiration column of Smashing Magazine publishes attractive, revealing and inspiring pictures. The editorial team did a great job by selecting 25 macro photography shots and publishing the list along with photographers name and source of the image.

The photographs cover a wide range of subjects starting from the eye of a Tokay Gecko, water bubbles, flowers, to eyelids of a girl. The series describes true form of macro photography where minute details of objects are revealed.







Click to see all 25 photographs.

Macro Photography

The term macro photography has been coined very recently. Macro photography is a stream of photography which can be compared with close-up photography. It is the art of taking close-up shots to enlarge a small area so that minute details become visible to naked eye.

According to wikipedia, the classical definition of macro photography is:

…” the image projected on the "film plane" (i.e., film or a digital sensor) is close to the same size as the subject.”

In reality the image projected on the film plane can be close, same size or larger as the subject. Using 1:2 macro lenses, one can shoot a photograph where the image is 1/2 of the subject and with 1:1 macro lenses image size becomes equal as the subject.

1:4 magnificent ratio is quite good to focus a subject and print it on 15x10 cm paper so that the image is equal to or larger than the object.

Image courtesy: shotaddict.com