SJP – Tips & Lessons

Hello everyone,

If you have been reading the steps on, “How to Photograph Up Close” then you should know how to process your photographs and have some basic knowledge on macro equipment. Did you do your homework and photograph in natural light? Did you notice that the closer you got to the subject, the depth-of-field shortened (less in focus)?

As I mentioned before…Once I complete this series I plan to write full articles on this site.  For now to read more of this article click here!

deserts blooms

Thank you,

Janice

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• 10 Quick Tips for Professional Macro Photographing (sullivanjphotography.com)
• Koen Miseur: A Fresh Look at Depth of Field: Using foreground to achieve creative depth of field (digital-photography-school.com)
• Fun With My Macro Filters #2 (eoghann.com)
• How to Photograph Up Close – V: Digital Basics (sullivanjphotography.com)
• Photographing Insects and Other Small Creatures (nikonusa.com)

Hello everyone,

I was working with a client on some white daisies and thought to myself… “Post some Daisies on your blog so you all can see how beautiful daisies are up close.”  We see these flowers all the time but when you view them as a Macro you can really appreciate the beauty and graceful quality of the flower.  Take a look at these photographs:

baby white daisy

back side of a pink gerber daisy

backlighting on a young daisy

manipulated gerber daisy

yellow top daisy

For those of you that want to see more of my daisy shots you can click on the image below:

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Photographs – Daisies – Images by Janice Sullivan

So have some fun and take a variety of close up photographs of daisies or any common subject… if you’re interested in the technical info of the flower, you can click on Common Daisy and Asteraceae (daisy family).  Be creative and take out your tripod, grab a macro lens or set your point & shoot on macro mode and enjoy the beauty of a common flower!

These photographs were all shot with my 100mm macro lens, tripod, cable release, with mirror lock-up, noise control for long exposures and various lighting techniques.

Cheers,

Janice