You take a picture to capture the moment and share it. The images hold a story, or at least you hope they do. We’ve recently begun attaching lenses to our smart phones and have discovered a passion for the macro lens and the tiny world it reveals.
You start with broad strokes or in film parlance, establishing shots. These set the stage to which you add detail with close up shots.
Macro photos give the viewer a very different prospective on the subject matter and require a different approach to taking pictures.
This tiny macro world shifts attention to parts of a scene that were always there, just tucked in small nooks and crannies.
It starts with a shift in approach to a subject. When you twist on that macro lens you are now going to spend some time crawling around on your hands and knees. We always shoot a variety of different images and then edit for the blog page. The addition of these extreme close shots offer punctuation to the story our establishing shots are trying to tell.
A whole new world lies below our feet. There have been some surprises along the way, i.e. the ferocious, gruesome world of insects AND a desperate need to beef up our flexibility exercises. But that said. we love the dynamic perspective this lens gives our photos.
Coming up in July a collection of macro photos will be featured in the photo essay.
I think the saying goes, “the best camera is the one you have in your hand.” For must of us, it’s now our phone. Paired up with the Internet, smart phones have forever changed picture sharing.
For blog images and YouTube videos we use a combination of DSLR and iPhone. This month the phones got updated and that gave us a much better camera. To this we’ve also added lenses specifically designed for smart phones.
