Creative close-ups
Make the most of your macro photography at home during the Christmas holidays
It’s the perfect time of year – the most wonderful time, some might say – to try your hand at indoor close-ups. With Christmas lights, decorations and food in abundance, there’s a feast of subjects to train your lens on. You don’t need a great deal in the way of equipment. In fact, taking a DIY approach to home studio not only makes financial sense, it can lead to more rewarding results too.
You’ll need just a lens that can focus relatively close. Many lenses have a ‘macro’ option built in, which will be more than adequate for subjects that aren’t minute. The advantages of a dedicated macro lens is that you can shoot at much closer distances to the subject, which means you can take up even less space in your kitchen or spare room. You can also fill the frame with smaller details, and the
