Using a macro lens, UK-based photographer Janet Waters gets up close and personal with all kinds of liquids, bubbles, food dye, and soapy water. Where
I never practiced healthy eating habits growing up. I’d skip breakfast every single day out of convenience. When it came to the rest of my meals, I ate whatever I wanted. I was an emotional eater and…
'In Flander's Fields' 6x6 pastel ©Karen Margulis sold I love a good zoom lens. When I am taking pictures I love to zoom in and get up close and personal with my subject. I love cropping and isolating the subject. I love focusing on just one thing allowing everything else to become less important. I am also drawn to these quiet intimate vignettes when I am painting. I love painting the big view...the vista....that big field of poppies. But then I am drawn in to a more intimate look. I want to study a single poppy or two. I want them to become the star of the painting. I zoom in and bring them close for a more personal painting. These paintings help me paint the larger view. Studying one or two blooms up close gives me so much more information about the flower. What shape is it? What is the growing habit? What colors are they? What kind of foliage does it have...foliage colors? I get the answers to my questions when I am painting close up views. 'Where Poppies Blow' 5x7 pastel $75 It also helps to learn more about the flowers I am painting. Take the Red Poppy for example. Did you know that the wildflower Red Poppy is also known as Shirley Poppy, Flanders Poppy and American Legion Poppy? These red poppies can be pink and white and they are not the same as the large red orange Oriental Poppies and smaller Icelandic poppies we see in gardens. The Red Poppy is best known for the large meadows of poppies in Central Europe. They have become permanently linked to World War I where the fields of poppies disappeared during the war due to the unrelenting battles. You may recall the famous poem by John McCrae 'In Flanders Fields' written as he gazed at the fresh graves of his fellow soldiers in the poppy fields. In Flanders Fields by John McCrae Written in Flanders on May 3, 1915 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. I will be sharing tips for painting both distant and close-up views of Wildflowers at the upcoming IAPS convention. My three hour demo will be packed full of information and several painting demonstrations. I am so excited about my plans for the 3 hour session. You will not want to miss it if you are coming to IAPS! Remember that registration for classes and workshops is now on October 8th at noon on the IAPS website. Read more about the Red Poppy and order seeds for your own poppy meadow from American Meadows. Painting notes: Both paintings are done on gray Pastelmat paper with no underpaintings. I used Diane Townsend Pure color set soft pastels.
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Rhizopus on a strawberry.
After a recent collaboration with Triple 5 Soul and Bic (where artist Chuck Anderson was commissioned to design the lighter), Anderson was left with plenty of samples. While he was taking pi…
This fluorescence micrograph of a soybean stem cross section highlights its cell walls in the parenchyma (yellow) and phloem (blue).
This was one of those weeks when I just couldn’t figure out what to do for a featured photo post. So, like other such weeks, I ended up searching my house for inspiration. That led me to the …
**Macro photography** is also known as close-up photography. Compared to other types of photography, macro photography is quite difficult, because of the nifty equipment, lightning and other techniques involved. However, in the end it comes down to what kind of pictures you want to take and what level of precision you are striving for.
Congratulations AYWMCers Ingeborg Hartgerink-Grandia and Anne MacIntyre who were successful in this year’s IGPOTY macro competition. Read our interview here:
When it comes to photography, it is wrong for people to assume that it is simply a matter of pointing the camera and clicking away. While photography does
Forget about the bogeyman in the cupboard or the monster under the bed, check out these creepy micro-monsters.
Tips for focusing when taking macro or close-up photographs, both when shooting handheld or with a tripod.
In his online exhibition Microsculpture, photographer Levon Biss gets close and personal with a whole host of creepy-crawly insects
Take a look at these jaw-dropping images of pollen and seeds up close
Hello! Bored panda is here again to kill your boredom. Are you ready to look into the second most complex organs besides brains? Are your ready to look at the mirror of the soul so close, maybe even close enough to see the soul? Beware! After seeing these photos, you will never look at the human eyes the same way, nor at the fly eyes. Still want to see them?
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It's a false colored, scanning electron microscope image of a toothbrush bristle. You heard me. That stringy stuff covering it? That would be...
Amateur macro photographer Nicolas Reusens, from Spain, amassed over 100 close-up images of insects over a three-year period.
On a microscopic level, everything is unimaginable horror.
Take a look at these jaw-dropping images of pollen and seeds up close
I posted a picture of this extremely macro-friendly protein bread the other day on my Instagram account and there was a lot of interest in the recipe. I based the recipe very closely on iheartmacro…
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All images © Linden Gledhill.
Extreme macro photography is usually done in a studio and can open one to a new world in macro photography with details that we would not see otherwise.
Some of the winning and honored images from the 2020 competition in close-up, macro, and micro photography
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An incredible gallery of macro photographs that show insect eyes in extraordinary detail and clarity.
the human body up close/magnified provides all the mystery of landscapes you would expect of another/alien world…enjoy! the rest of the images ive included have been created by a scanning ele…
Photograph by ALEXEY KLJATOV Blog | Flickr | Facebook | Google+ | deviantART | 500px | Tumblr | Prints In this remarkable macro photograph we see a close-up of three individual seeds on the …
