Sunday, January 29, 2012

Expanding the horizons - getting closer

Macro lenses and rings have their advantages. They enable us to look at things more close. Thus changing our point of view. Can look at details we haven't noticed before. Unlike pictures from high above, dayly objects are now transformed into abstract. It is a whole new field of expirience and playground of compositions and lighting.

A rather inexpencive set of lens ring makes a macro lens out of the normal ones. Enabling to reduce distance and enhance relative size of objects.

Examples:


Saturday, December 31, 2011

shooting food - real up close

using special lenses to shoot food.
I used a set of macro rings and a macro lens to get real close to these pictures.
the macro allows almost no depth of field , so it looks like some distant landscapes