7 macro photography skills

Lead: Many friends like macro photography and are addicted to the microscopic scenes of sand and the world. Let me talk about the skills of macro photography. Let's have a look!

1. Get familiar with your own photographic equipment first.

In my opinion, you don't need a lot of equipment and accessories to take a good photo, but the most important thing is to be familiar with your own photographic equipment, especially novices. At first, you expect to blindly pursue professional-grade expensive equipment. You might as well learn about your own equipment from practice and try to shoot more and accumulate experience. When you skillfully use your own equipment, you will get good photos when shooting.

Practice repeatedly with a multi-purpose macro lens

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At the beginning, people may encounter the problem of focusing, because it is difficult to find the target from the viewfinder, and they will have difficulty in focusing. Finally, they found that the photos taken were not clear enough. In fact, as long as you know and try to solve your mistakes and practice repeatedly, you can become confident and take good photos.

2. Understand the operation of the aperture

Some people may think that a large aperture can take beautiful macro photos. Not necessarily. I think learning to shoot macro should first learn the operation of aperture, because the depth of field is not only based on its depth, but also a commonly used macro composition tool. Because you need to know what subject and subject you are shooting first, you don't have to pursue "the bigger the aperture, the better".

Just like this photo, it is no problem to shoot the stamen, but if you want to shoot the whole flower, the aperture is too large to aim at the stamen, which may blur the petals.

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If you use too large aperture shadow macro, you may only focus on the head or tail of the insect, but not the whole insect. In the end, you can only get a photo that highlights the whole body of the insect (unless you want to deliberately highlight the focus and close-up of the head). If you shoot flowers, you may only focus on one of the petals and don't have to be "useful".

Pay attention to the most beautiful moment

The "decisive moment" is often heard. It turns out that macro photography also has this link. The master thinks that if you concentrate on a moment, when you judge a good time, you can take a beautiful photo by pressing the shutter. But if you don't judge the timing, or if you are one step behind, you will naturally not be able to take good photos.

Capture the most wonderful image moments of insects

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While focusing on shooting, don't forget to ignore the surrounding environment. Once the subject suitable for shooting is found, everyone should try to capture the different movements and aesthetics of the subject as much as possible. It may be difficult to shoot insects and it may scare them away. Secondly, I think it is not easy to capture the graceful movements of dynamic subjects.

Step 4 shoot without a plan

Sometimes, as photographers, everyone may have planned what subject to shoot, where to shoot and so on. Before shooting, I know what tools and equipment I need to bring, and I can't start shooting until everything is ready. Of course, it is sometimes important to make full preparations in advance, but maybe some photographers just like to do the opposite.

Sometimes shooting is worse than "unprepared"

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Sometimes, as photographers, everyone may have planned what subject to shoot, where to shoot and so on. Before shooting, I know what tools and equipment I need to bring, and I can't start shooting until everything is ready. Of course, it is sometimes important to make full preparations in advance, but maybe some photographers just like to do the opposite.

5. The importance of modification

I believe that many photographers will use retouching software after taking photos. I think we should learn how to use post-production software to edit our own photos. At the same time, you can know what can be edited and what can't be edited in post-production, so you can know to avoid making the same mistake again in shooting.

I believe that many photographers will use retouching software after taking photos.

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For example, the focus problem mentioned above requires Lightroom and others to try to "save" photos by increasing sharpness, but if they are out of focus when shooting, it is difficult to save them completely. Therefore, I think retouching is secondary. The most important thing is that you have mastered the shooting skills, and you have taken photos that "capture that moment" and "focus accurately"!

6. Don't force yourself to shoot anything.

This is actually similar to the fourth point. The difference is, I think everyone thinks that we should keep an open mind to shoot. Some people don't like insects, so they don't try to shoot at all. Of course, you can also focus on shooting flowers and other themes, but "diversified" theme shooting can make you more familiar with macro photography and make shooting not too boring.

Friends who like to shoot flowers don't have to be limited to "shooting flowers"

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I think macro photography of insects is not only a photography technique, but also allows people to look around and study small creatures they want to know more about. Because macro photography can reveal more details of insects, I think even the "ugliest" insects can be an interesting topic, and every moment may record their different actions, and the process is very interesting.

7. Try a new shooting style.

I feel that while establishing my own shooting style, I should not limit myself too much to a certain shooting composition and angle. I like trying to adjust different situations, because I like experiments best, so I can try to mix old and new technologies and practice them. You don't have to use "same composition, same angle" to trap your creativity.

Try more interesting shooting styles.

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For example, in a day, natural light can have many different situations, if the light at sunrise or sunset is very suitable for taking macro photos with high contrast backlight; If the sky is bright at noon, you can try to make macro photos with color as the theme. Masters also like to enlarge the aperture and take pictures by hand, because they can have a very fast exposure time, so that the movement of objects can be solidified instantly.

Finally, in fact, many macro photographers have been trying, learning, and growing into masters now, taking beautiful macro photos one after another. So the most important point is actually, "success requires hard work." I hope readers can absorb the key points of this article and practice it again and again. In fact, they also have the opportunity to become masters and follow the pace into the macro photography world.