Ever since I took a photo every day for a whole month in March, I can’t help but look at everything in a new way. I learned so much about myself and my photography through that whole process, a few of which I will share with you today. Here are three things I [...]

For the past 10 days, I’ve been shooting and Photoshopping dancing shoes for a website. There are a lot of shoe styles to shoot, and even more shots to edit, so I’ve been swamped. In a few days, I’ll write some specifics about how I lit these, but for now, I’ll say [...]

Tripods and Focusing Rails
Now that you ‘re getting serious about macro-photography, you‘ll start seeing some issues when your trying to get that picture of the flea that just bit you, or the wild-flowers that are so small even the bees ignore them.
Shooting at any macro-magnification is like shooting a long-telephoto lens. Stability becomes a major [...]

Sophia has a dress-up box that Amy’s been filling up slowly but surely over the last year or so. There’s the tu-tu and the fuzzy bracelet and the kimono. And then there’s the stripey Cat-in-the-Hat hat and clown nose, both of which Sophia decided to dress me in today. [...]

Having covered the general first steps in macro-photography in out last blog, and assuming the results made you want to go further with your macro-photos, we continue with part II.
The next-step after close-up accessory lenses is to purchase a good, dedicated close-up lens.

What is Macro photography, you might ask? Well, for the uninitiated*, MACRO photography is close-up photography to the max (unlike Mackerel-photography which is pictures of fish…“Don Corleone, I have bad news, Bruno Tattaglia shoots with the fishes….“). The only thing closer is true Microphotography which requires that you have a scanning electron microscope in your [...]

If you’ve been following this blog at all for the past month, you’ll know that I was participating in a photography challenge that consisted of me taking a photograph every day for 30 days. Man, just typing that out makes it seem so easy.
But even from the start, I wasn’t fooled. I had participated in [...]

The moon looks so full tonight. It silhouetted a tree branch in the distance earlier, so I grabbed my Nikon and the tripod for some experimenting. While this shot really wasn’t what I was going for, I like it anyway. It’s creepy and reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe. There’s [...]