What is Macro photography?

Hi!

This article is about Macro Photography for laymen.

Macro photography is a type pf photography which has very close shoot of smaller the subject or the abject being photographed. Technically, the image projected on the film plane, is close to the actual/same size of the subject. The camera forces its lens to optimize to focus sharply on areas which are very close/near to it.

There are different/indivisual lenses called as Macro lenses specially for such type of macro photography which has a ratio as, The size of the image on the film:The size of the object being photographed, mostly the ratio is 1:1 or 1:2, and can achieve upto 1:10. The ratio varies according to the focal length of the lense/camera, for example the ratios 1:1 or 1:2 are for cameras/lenses having focal length about 35mm. mm (millimeter) is the unit in which the camera's/lens's focal length is measured.

The above photograph is also a macro photograph of a thorn of cactus plant. As you can see in this photograph, I have focused on the thorn due to which its very clear and sharply visible, even the cobwebs around the thorn are clearly captured by the camera lens because they are close to the camera, very close, and the area which is not closer to lens is blurred or not clear, unfocused.


This photograph or any other macro photographs are very good examples of Depth Of Field (DOF), particularly relates to film and photography.

So this is how macro photography works, I hope it helped you. Please post your reviews about this.

Thanks!

Tanmay.