Bruce Taubert will be presenting two learning sessions at Arizona Highways Photo Workshops’ 30th Anniversary Symposium. Here’s more about his “Macro- Photography” Session.
Bruce takes photographs of small things because they are beautiful, and he can only really appreciate how beautiful and unique they are by having an image to look at. It is almost impossible for him to see the scales that make up butterfly wings or the pollen on a bee’s legs without viewing a photograph. He never really appreciated the intricacy of a dragonfly’s eyes or the interweaves of a bird’s feather, again until he saw a close-up photograph of them. There is an incredible WOW factor when he looks at images that show the pieces of the natural world that he has never seen before. Even though many of his images of small things may never be published, it is through these images that he better appreciates the beauty of the small pieces of our world.
Macro-photography is normally defined as “taking photographs of small items and making them larger than life size”. This definition, for most photographers, is too limiting. It can be defined more simply as “close-up” photography, allowing photos of less than life-size subjects to be included.
Macro-photography is unique from other forms of photography in that it requires the use of different types of equipment than landscape, portrait, and most wildlife photography. It also requires some different skills than other forms of photography. The cameras are the same, but only through the use of specialized lenses and other equipment can the photographer take photographs at 0.5X and it is even more complicated as we attempt to photograph at magnifications greater than 1X.
In the “Macro-photography” learning session, you will learn all about the specialized equipment, techniques, and art of macro-photography. Bruce’s hope is that after you digest all of that information, you will better understand how to use the cameras, lenses, and associated equipment to open up the special world of macro-photography.
To read the post on Bruce’s other learning session, “Hummingbird Photography,” visit our Capture Your Moment page.
Bruce Taubert is a photographer for Arizona Highways Photo Workshops.
For more information and to register for sessions like this, please visit the AHPW’s 30th Symposium website.