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 […]
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. […]
These days it is quite simple to fit what are called “legacy lenses” on to micro 4/3rds camera bodies. There’s a lot of info about this on the Internet, and also a lot of info about the use of “adapted lenses”. “Legacy lenses” are lenses made in the past for other still photography uses, and […]
I’ve been trying out a new light-painting tool. It’s my home-made version of a commercially available tool. I’ve had some custom-cut Perspex shapes made, and bought a very powerful LED torch. The torch has three Cree T6 LED’s, and is somewhat north of 1000 Lumens brightness. At present my Perspex shapes are held in place […]
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