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Eastern Calligrapher, a type of flower fly

Eastern Calligrapher, a type of flower fly

Macro Photography During the Pandemic

Simon Abrams June 8, 2020

Our reality is very different now, and calls for us to practice responsible social distancing (unless, of course, you are more concerned about other more pressing issues in our society, but that's not what this post is about). As photographers, this might mean finding subjects that don't involve getting close to other people.

This is how I've come to find myself shooting more and more macro photography of insects and plants in Prospect Park. My wife is currently working on an urban naturalist program through the New York Botanical Garden, so I have to give her credit for helping me to look more closely, as well as to be able to identify some of the tiny subjects that I've been filling my frame with lately.

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Wanting to get close is all well and good, but I couldn't have made these images on my iPhone without my Moment Macro lens (affiliate link). With a max focal distance of just 1", there's no other way to get this close to your subject.

With a macro lens and the help of an app like Pro Camera by Moment, that lets you manually focus your lens; and a tripod or some other means of stabilizing your phone, you can try focus stacking, or capturing different regions of the image in focus, and then blending them to achieve a crisp image overall.

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Basil flowers, focus stacked with 11 images

Basil flowers, focus stacked

In gadgets, iphone, iphoneography, photography Tags photography, macro, iphone, shotoniphone
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