Beginners must learn several skills of macro photography.

A flower and a world, a tree and a bodhi, the small world is equally wonderful. Let's look at the world from the perspective of macro photography and look for different horizons.

First, choose the appropriate macro photographic equipment.

"If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools first." Although many card machines and micro-sheets on the market have macro photography function, professional photographic equipment is still the basis to realize the idea of shooting if you want to shoot high-quality photographic works, especially macro photography works.

Macro lens is undoubtedly the best choice for shooting macro, which not only has very high imaging quality, but also has ultra-high magnification and good background blur effect. This work skillfully uses the circular structure of dew and spider web, blurring the foreground and background through diagonal and circular composition, thus vividly showing the little spider in the center of the picture.

Second, bring a tripod with good stability.

Macro photography has a small focus range because it enlarges the subject, and even a slight jitter will have a great impact on the picture. But accurate focusing often takes a long time, which is a challenge to the photographer's physical strength. It is suggested to prepare a tripod with high quality and good stability when shooting.

Shooting insects is a delicate job, and skilled technology, considerable patience and agile speed are indispensable. The choice of focal plane is very important for macro shooting of insects. When shooting, the position of the camera should be as parallel as possible to the insect being photographed, and the content to be photographed should be included in the same plane range to ensure the details of the subject.

Third, the large aperture creates the micro world.

Everyone likes the beautiful blur effect of depth of field. How can I get pleasing pictures? Macro photography is actually very easy to do.

Everyone knows the common sense about depth of field. The closer you are to the subject, the shallower the depth of field. This principle can be easily used to explain why a macro lens can simply realize a beautiful Jiao Wai. Of course, this does not mean that a small aperture can well satisfy the performance of macro photography. More often, simple and clean large aperture depth of field and higher shutter speed are the sharp tools for the success of macro photography.

Fourth, show more patience and concentration.

The key to the success of macro photography is focusing, which is also the most torturous step. Macro photography has a small focus range because it shoots relatively small objects and scenery. Even if you move 1 mm, the previously focused scenery will be blurred.

The outside of coke melts like cream, and the inside of coke is as sharp as a knife. "Do we often use such words to describe an image with perfect Jiao Wai and imaging quality? The practical focusing method is mainly automatic focusing, supplemented by manual focusing. First, the subject is roughly focused, and then when the focus of the lens is locked near the subject, it is accurately focused in manual mode. When shooting such a delicate and complicated picture as the above picture, you must not rely entirely on the autofocus mode, which will easily lead to focus failure or hesitation.

In the above picture, the snail in the rain is frozen, so it is very important for the snail to focus accurately. Assuming that there is a displacement of several millimeters between the lens and the subject, or the fuselage shakes slightly, the clear imaging will be lost. The dual anti-shake function of the lens can help us a lot at this time.

Focusing is an extremely torturous and interesting process. We must show more patience when we fall in love with the micro-world.

Five, the rational use of all kinds of lights

Macro photography is very sensitive to light, and a little change in light will make a qualitative change in the picture. We should be good at using all kinds of light to show the direction, texture and color of the subject together with the light energy, highlight the texture of the subject better through the side light energy, and outline the perfect outline of the subject through the backlight ... Macro photographers generally prefer scattered light environment and are more afraid of strong direct light.

Natural light is the first choice for macro photography, but what if there is insufficient illumination and depth of field when shooting the above picture? At this time, the flash is undoubtedly the best auxiliary. Commonly used ring flash can create a shadow-free environment, and the wireless flash mode of flash can greatly expand our light distribution method. We can control the external flash through the camera's built-in menu and use the WFC-05 flash bracket.

Six, a little more, a little more patience.

Macro photography needs patience and passion more than other shooting subjects. Because focusing is inherently difficult, if the subject is a moving insect, you need to have foresight, wait for the opportunity until the perfect composition appears, and then press the shutter to freeze the picture.

The above are some skills of macro photography. I hope this article can help and inspire photographers!