Tag: macro

  • Butterfly wings – a set on Flickr

     Flickr user Linden Gledhill has a phenomenal series of macro photographs of butterfly wings. Incredible detail and sharpness for such a tiny subject. Butterfly wings – a set on Flickr.

  • Poor Mans Macro

    Here are some shots of items I found out on Carolina Beach while visiting there with the family. What is poor mans macro, you ask? It’s simple. In lieu of an actual macro lens, you can take your normal lens off the body, flip it around backwards and take pictures through it. Now, you won’t…

  • WonderLand – Aimishboy Photography

    Incredible macro photography from Nadav Bagim, of Israel. He sets up miniature scenes on his kitchen table, adds an insect or two, and the results are nothing less than fantastic. The color that he manages to bring out in his photos is amazing in it’s own right, but add that to the nature of each…

  • Poor Mans Macro 2.0

    I wrote a few days ago about a method of using a standard lens for macro photography. I shared only a few photos that day, but there were many shots that turned out well. I thought about going through the whole set and picking and choosing which ones to share with you, but then I…

  • Poor man’s macro

    [singlepic id=232 w=240 h=160 float=left]Macro lenses are hard to come by if you’re on a shoestring budget. Luckily, there is a trick for us DSLR owners. Simply turn your lens around backwards. I experimented this evening with the technique, and got some surprising results while shooting a bouquet of roses that I gave to my…

  • Liquid Sculpture – Water Drops

    An awesome gallery of water drop photography. Martin Waugh is the photographer behind the gallery, and has refined the capture of water drops to a science. Liquid Sculpture – Water Drops.

  • Zebra Swallowtail on Zinnia

    A few weeks ago I noticed a butterfly at work. It was flapping around on the ground, so I knew it wouldn’t live much longer. So I decided I’d bring him home, show him to the girls so they could get a good close look at a butterfly. I put him between two small paper…