…as the old saying goes. Its not just the grass that’s growing well here in the south of England. The spring flowers have started flowering too. Having looked at and admired them the question arises of how best to photograph them. If you want to get close-up to a flower you can stand at a […]
Welcome to the first Gale Photography blog post of 2018! Yesterday I was fine-tuning and timing my new “Macro Photography” talk. I reckoned it was looking and sounding pretty good, but I felt the ending needed a theme. Macro photography can be done anywhere, so I set myself a little challenge. It was to spend […]
Last weekend I was up in Manchester for a social event. As usual I took my little Lumix TZ-70 along with me. It’s got a broad zoom range and is eminently pocketable, so I always have it with me. Being a photographer means that I am looking for, and seeing, images everywhere. There was a […]
In my last blog post I talked about use of macro lenses and how the “rules” of composition applied to images taken with them. In today’s post I’m going to show how close-up and macro photography can give images that are very abstract, because of their ability to remove all information about scale. Here is […]
Next year I will be offering a camera club talk about “Close-up and Macro photography”. In the talk I will discuss the joys, and challenges, that this sort of photography brings. There will be a certain amount of stuff about equipment and techniques, but the “rules” of photography still apply to close-up and macro images. […]
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