Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography – Choose the Best Lens

Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography – Blend Flash with Ambient

5. Blend Flash with Ambient

With more static subjects it can be fun to add a blip of flash just to liven up an image. In this composite shot of a sycamore leaf, both images were exposed for natural light; however, the bottom image was given a blip of off-camera fill-in flash and the shutter speed was increased by one stop in order to darken the background.

WDC Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Sycamore Leaf

WDC Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Sycamore Leaf

Sycamore leaf. Nikon D200, Nikon 105mm macro lens. 1/125 (top) & 1/250sec (bottom) @ f/8, ISO 100.

  1. 1. 1. Choose the Best Lens Option
  2. 2. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Make a Standard Zoom Focus Closer
  3. 3. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Add a Dioptre to Make a Lens Focus Closer
  4. 4. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Use Apertures to Control Depth of Field
  5. 5. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Blend Flash with Ambient
  6. 6. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Use a Third Hand
  7. 7. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Fine-tune Macro Pattern Compositions
  8. 8. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Point of Focus
  9. 9. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Check LCD Panel
  10. 10. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Raindrops
  11. 11. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Backgrounds
  12. 12. Top 12 Tips for Macro Photography - Butterflies
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