Güray Dere

Russian-made optics are known for being inexpensive yet high-quality and durable. Since I was happy with my first microscope objective, the Lomo 8X, I gravitated—again with no prior knowledge—toward another …

In the previous post, we looked at what the focus stacking technique is. We talked about how, to complete sharpness in areas that are out of focus, we need to …

I may have repeated this in other posts, but I’ll touch on it again as an intro. As you know, one of the big pains for macro photographers is the …

Almost everyone interested in macro will also be interested in the nature of what they photograph—namely, insects. Personally, even though I form ideas about the behaviors of certain species through …

You’re into macro photography and want to try something different… You’ve got lenses of various focal lengths in a drawer: 200mm, 135mm, 90, 50, 35, etc. Or at least let’s …

I still remember the thrill of picking up my 1:1 macro lens for the first time and shooting a few frames—being able to render flowers and insects that large was …

The excitement you feel when doing anything for the first time is upon us today. We’re about to try, for the first time, a flash-free, open-air “focus stacking” session we’ve …

In an earlier article I explained how important flash usage is in macro photography. Now I’m going to write the exact opposite and praise shooting macro without flash. Rather than …

Literally, a teleconverter is a “tele adapter,” meaning a device that increases a lens’s focal length. It does this by specific multiplication factors. You can find teleconverters in various strengths …

I’ll keep this post a bit brief because the topic is closely related to the article Macro photography with an enlarger lens. For more general information, don’t forget to take …