To get close to your macro subject in the pre-digital days of SLRs when all you had was the viewfinder the only option you had was to stretch your arms out whilst squinting through the viewfinder as the camera got further away from your eye. Skittish subjects are disturbed by your looming head and the disturbance of intervening vegetation.
Still a perfectly valid technique with DSLRs, more so as viewfinders have become brighter. With the viewfinder you can centre your quarry and move towards it more easily than by using the wide screen, much like using binoculars or rifle scopes.
If your camera brand has an eye-detector causing the viewfinder to black out (the Joo-Janta function) then block it with a slip of paper.
Give this traditional technique a shot.
Good hunting
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make a video demonstrating the technique, please.
That’s an idea. That’d take two people and a lot of time and effort though; I was thinking a simple stick figure drawing would suffice.
In the meantime there’s a more detailed explanation of the technique on the DPReview forum where it was enough of a revelation to one user to elicit a “Wow”
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