The UNIVERSE at OUR FEET
The natural world has unending beauty to explore through photography. It’s easy to conjure up images of stunning waterfalls, landscapes and night skies in exotic locations. With an infinite travel budget, you can explore it all. But as near as your backyard, an unexpectedly vast collection of otherworldly subjects is right at your feet. With a few simple techniques and the right equipment, you can begin to discover the enchanted realm of macro photography.
Macro photographers often play by a different rulebook of lines, shapes and colors. Rarely in other genres of photography do you have such flexible control over the fundamental building blocks of an image.
• You are not always beholden to gravity.
• Your perspectives will inherently be unique.
• The closer you get to your subject, the more challenging things become.
• Your shooting choices often have a significant artistic impact on the resulting image.
For example, with no horizon line in the frame, how far can you rotate a composition in any direction before reality feels broken? Twenty degrees? Forty-five? Ninety? I constantly require reminders of macro’s photographic superpower
