Level: Intermediate

At the time I wrote this, I’d been happily following natural-light, flash-free work for a long while. Out of a bit of laziness, I hadn’t tried it myself yet. My …

If the goal is macro, nothing beats being out in the field. Escaping the city’s crowded, noisy crush; working with live insects and flowers in their natural habitat; watching and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Known in English as “enlarger” lenses, these belong to the darkroom equipment of the film photography era. When we wanted to make a photographic print from a negative, we used …

Just as the use of extension tubes is common and important in macro photography, reverse lens mounting is likewise among the first techniques we should learn as a method we’ll …