Systems and Processes - Lesson 5 - Macro

This week we learned about Macro photography.

Macro means that the subject is on the camera sensor at the same size that it really is, a 1:1 scale.

We took these pictures using a Macro lens and 2 tungsten lamps with flash to light the shot. One lamp on either side of the subject on a product table in the studio.



This happened due to the flash sync.
The flash of light from a flash unit is extremely short (a few milliseconds), and has to happen when the shutter is fully open. If the flash happens when the shutter is still opening or closing then the shutter itself can block the light and stopping the entire image area from being fully exposed.











Shooting accross the subject, when using a macro lens, depth of field is extremely shallow. There is literally a couple of millimeters that are in focus.

To get a more focused photo, shooting from above can help. This is shown in the picture below.