Taken on an agave leaf, early morning after heavy dew

45 amazing and clever photos of  water droplets  - http://www.lightstalking.com/water-drops

Just passing the fruit bowl when I noticed the light shining on the lemons and begging to be photographed

Food photography – when life hands you lemons – photograph them

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Can you imagine what these would look like if you took the shot of just the passionfruit vine with a flower in the corner ?

Wouldn’t it lose its impact ? Would it look half as good as it does moving close in to take a macro image where  the entire frame is filled with the flower ?

These photos were taken with the flash off and on macro setting – best to use a tripod unless your camera has a built in anti-shake  or you have steady hands or take the photo

with your arms close to your body for extra support.    Don’t you think the second photo looks a bit like a lobster ?   The beauty of macro is that you can take a small piece of something and

come up with a fantastic abstract image that is pure photo art.  Give it a try.     Look around for something you can photograph small parts of, or in a different way and see what you can come up with.

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Photographers –  painters of light.

Ever noticed the light ?

I mean really noticed the light.

How it changes constantly, how it shifts and moves, comes and goes ever so slightly.

How it slides to one side then the next in a subtle dance of light.

Because our eyes adjust to the light shifts automatically and instantly we don’t even really notice it until we start to take photographs.

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Ever start clicking and thinking you have the perfect shot and then take a look at the display to find you have a shadow over half of your photo that you didn’t even spot when you took it ?

Digital will force you to take note !

You will suddenly become very aware of light shifts.

You  need to be if you don’t want to find all your photos have come out in various shades and depths of stripes

Once you take note of it it becomes pretty obvious but just try this as an experiment:

• Place an object you want to photograph half in and half out of bright sunlight and click the shutter.
• Check your display screen
• What do you see ?
• You will notice your photo is separated into two distinct  halves, one very dark and one very light.
• Now try this adding another shade source, like a window pane or plant and see where the light and shade start and finish.
• Leave your subject in the same place and photograph it again in  half an  hour
• Take  another half hour later again and notice how the light has changed dramatically
• Go on, do it now – you can always delete them, who will ever know you have taken such lousy shots, half black and the other half looking like a ghost has just been blasted through it.

You will notice in the photos above that light plays a big part, good and bad !  The top photo shows the distortion where the camera is too close to the lens but the composition is good and the light and shadow improves the photo and the second photo is completely ruined by the fall of the shadow and you will also see the power lines in this photo.  OK, you can  edit them out but why go to all that effort when if you walk around to the other side and wait for the shadow to shift you can get a far better shot.

Now you have lift off – the importance of where the light source is and where it highlights is one of  the most important things to bear in mind  if you want amazing and incredible photos.

Ask yourself where you want the light to come from, where you want it to reflect on your subject, what you want to highlight and what you want to overshadow and you will find it makes a huge difference to your photographs.

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Sunlit Fern in a dark side of house  transformed with a ray of sun catching it.

You will find exciting images everywhere  once you start to see differently – try it – don’t be like some would be photographers who are “waiting until they know how to do it properly ”  just do it and you will find you become good at it and if you keep going you will become excellent at identifying those shots that are keepers.

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Aluminium Foil Macro Digital Image

Looking  for something with strong contrast, massive lights and shades, wanting something that gives you strong abstract shapes and shadows ?  Wanting something that is freely available, constantly changeable but can also be constant enough for you to take a heap of shots without it moving off on you at the crucial moment of pressing the shutter ?   Want something that you can manipulate and change at will ?

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How about something that you can find in most kitchen drawers ?  Aluminum foil –  for a starting point just pull it out, scrunch it up and move around  until you get a composition that looks amazing and start shooting.  Turn  your flash off or all you will get will be reflections of yourself !  Fine if you want a fuzzy photo of your own nose !   Then start adding and moving light, move it closer to the light source, away from it and use a tripod for best results –  spot the photo above where there is camera shake to see the difference.    Switch your camera to macro for extra good close ups and to avoid that fuzzy photo of your nose again  Go experiment and while you are at it pull out a few of the other things in your kitchen drawer – you will be amazed at what has been lurking there all the while that will take amazing photos.

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What do you all think of this as natures very own handiwork ?

This could almost have been duplicated in a tapestry or made into one of Kaffe Fassett’s tapestrys or  knitted works of art or painted into a giant artwork don’t you think ?

This macro image was one of a very small clump of moss on a concrete step – just goes to show what can happen when you view things differently – we’ve probably all been just walking over these amazing shots and not giving them a second glance.  Try looking at everyday things like moss, slimy gutter pipes,  mould and rust through your macro lens and see what you can see.

Taken again with my trusty Nikon Coolpix of course !   On its macro setting.

You too can take awesome shots just seek and you will find

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Golden Lichen on Rock

More shots from the ladder  Looking down on things sure can give you a new slant on things – check out what I spotted from above – I’ve walked past this golden mossy “sculpture” a stack of times but it looked different with the sunlight shining on it and the Bromeliad from above looked like a mini pond.  Ask Frogs – they love them !