I’m not a photography expert, but over 12 years of trying to photograph tiny bugs, I’ve learned a few lessons that are worth sharing. Feel free to share your own tips and tricks as well! Always use your flash. It’s very difficult to get sharp macro photographs without it. Get a good flash diff…

Which software do you use for it?

I have spent a lot of time shooting bees (just submitted a research paper documenting some of my finds to the Washington entomo society journal). If light is great outside, I try to shoot natural light, high shutter speed, and get action shots. In lower light I am forced into using the flash (My D75…

Typically Photoshop (CS5 or CS6, depending on the computer I’m on). It’s a two-step process with step 1 loading all files into a stack (File > Scripts > Load files into stack) and step 2 selecting the layers in the stack and aligning and blending them (Edit > Auto-Align and Auto-Blend Layers). I’ve …

Thank you! I will consider byuing Ps eventually, I tried a free programm, but it was very unclear how to do that with quite unintuitive interface.

I use a Panasonic micro 4/3 with a macro lens. For flash photos, I generally use aperture of about 13. I use flash most of the time except in bright sunlight, which seems to interfere in the shutter timing and causes blurry photos. If I can set the manual focus to minimum distance, I can move the ca…

There are a lot of good ideas here. Thanks for posting them! :sun_with_face: I have been photographing for years and never heard the word “stacking” before. What does it mean? I hardly use the automatic setting because my camera doesn’t do a good job in guessing the right exposure. My gear is old …

You said it! Last weekend I had an amazing experience with butterflies. There were feeding on two plants with yellow flowers of the same species and they forgot all about my shadow and me. For the first time I was able to take decent pictures of different species of butterflies in just one spot. Fur…

It means you make multiple photos of one object at the same angle, but with different focal points, then you stack thosee photos, resulting in 1 image with greater dof than 1 photo, most of professional macro is done that way.

Like melodi_96 said - it’s also used extensively in microscopy, where it is often referred to as Z-stacking. I think that’s because the stage with the slide is the XY plane, and the focus knob moving the stage up and down is the Z direction in XYZ spatial coordinates. Wikipedia also has an article o…

Secrets to good macro photography

Nature Talk

teellbee June 24, 2021, 1:32pm 50

Whoa! That skipper photo is breathtaking!

Topic		Replies	Views
Beginner Camera for Insect Photos Nature Talk photography	29	6317	September 26, 2024
Macro Photography and Epilepsy Nature Talk	32	2580	November 2, 2021
Insect Photographs - How To? Nature Talk	43	3359	September 20, 2020
Tips for macro photography? Nature Talk question , photography , macro	20	1061	September 5, 2024
What upgrades would you like on your iPhone camera to take more useful photos for iNat? General question , seek	30	710	January 16, 2026

Secrets to good macro photography

Related topics