Flora and fauna photography is incredibly popular.
And for good reason too! Flower petals have such lovely velvety textures. Of course you’d want to take a picture of them. And the human eye. We never really get to see all of the colors of our eyes until we get up close. It’s almost mesmerizing.
I love the layers of petals in a rose. It’s absolutely beautiful, and for good reason too. I especially thought that this photograph would be appropriate for Valentine’s Day, since that holiday is coming up this week!
In order to get up close this much, a macro lens, filter, or tube is your best friend. This let you get incredibly close up to your subject without accidentally bumping into it with your lens. For this shot, I used an LED external lighting source so I could get the light just right. Whenever you’re taking a macro photograph, it’s best–if you can–to have your f/stop at around f/6-13.
You don’t have to take the most obvious route with your macro photography either. This is a picture of some grasses that I had found, and I love the bokeh that they create in the foreground and background. It almost makes it look mysterious.
And finally, who can forget the human eye? I love the amount of detail that you can capture in the iris. The colors in the iris are also stunning. It’s incredible that every single person’s eye is different. No two colors are exactly the same. Some people have freckles in their eye–like Page here. Shout out to her for letting me shove a camera in her face to get this. You’re the best.
Look at this slideshow of macro photographs of different eyes. These photographs are mind blowing! I could stare at them all day. I almost get vertigo as I look into the pupil.
