Macro wokshop

We had a workshop with Andy on how to light macro shots and to show how to use macro.
Macro is of an image that has a 1:1 ratio, this means that the macro image taken is the same size on the screen as it is in real life.

I did some research into macro photography and found out that most images are of plants or water.



The colours in this image are beautiful and the depth of field works really well against the sharpness of the rose. The petals have been captured really well, showing every single one of them in great detail.



I like how this image has been made darker towards the front of the image making it look more mysterious and how the ball of water has been lit as the centre piece.



This image was captured just at the right time. It was captured just before the water droplets fell off the plant. The image was taken either in the morning when the dew is still around or when the rain had finished. The droplets all have the same reflection, of a purple and pink plant. This looks great against the green.



I love the colours on this image and how the images is so sharp. This makes an interesting subject to photograph because of the shape of the plant, the spikes etc.



This images is really interesting because the photographer has captured one of the crayons and has somehow managed to stand all of the pencils up which is quite interesting. I like how the photographer has focused on a bit of the shavings from the pencils too. I like how the images is different from most other macro images that I have seen.



This is my favourite photographs of macro that i found. The photographer must have had to take this image so many times trying to capture her eyes and the reflection in the water, unless she edited it on photoshop which is very likely. The contrast is very interesting and I like how the water has been made dark as though it's mysterious.

I didn't want to follow this so took images of one of my necklaces. I thought that the crystals would make an interesting subject.
Here are the contact sheets from the shoot, some of these images aren't mine, they are other peoples from the work shop.









The two images of the full necklace were taken with a macro filter.



This image was taken with two continuous, cold, lights facing the necklace. I took the image facing the necklace at the same height so that I was looking across the necklace. This has caused the bottom to be in focus and the top area out of focus.




I took this image with the same lighting but changed my white balance to tungsten. I also took this image from above keeping most of the necklace in focus.



This image was taken with a macro lens that George lent me. I went in closer to the image to capture the words on the necklace. It was quite difficult to keep my hand still and to reduce camera shake.