Discover macro photography techniques for photographing leaves, stems, plant textures and other natural foliage. Explore lighting and composition ideas for revealing details that are easy to overlook.
Creating Fantasy Mushroom Scenes with LED Macro Lighting – Watch on YouTube Creating Fantasy Mushroom Scenes with LED Macro Lighting Autumn is a magical time for macro photography. The forest floor comes alive with colour, texture and fungi. Mushrooms, in particular, offer a unique opportunity to capture nature’s detail and mystery. With the right lighting,…
Macro Photography of Plant Roots, A Unique Plant Perspective – Watch on YouTube Macro Photography of Plant Roots Macro photography often focuses on the beauty of flowers and leaves. But there’s a hidden part of the plant world that rarely gets attention – the roots. This guide explores how to photograph plant roots using macro…
Mastering Simple Flower Photography at Home: A Step-by-Step Guide – Watch on YouTube Spring is the perfect season to explore flower photography, and in this tutorial, we’ll break down a simple yet effective method to capture stunning floral images right from your home. Whether you’re a beginner or just looking for a hassle-free way to…
What makes nettles sting? – Close-up stinging nettle macro photography – Watch on YouTube Stinging nettles – They caused us all some trauma as children, running into the bushes only to come out covered in stings. But what gives them that unique quality to send people running? We’re going to take a close-up look at…
Infrared Macro Photography – Is IR only for landscapes? – Watch on YouTube We get a lot of questions about Infrared macro photography. It usually comes after we talk about UV photography, and the products we offer to make that possible for macro photographers. We’ve never investigated the possibility of Infrared macro, until now! What…
Gin Botanical Macro Photography at Louth Distillery – Watch on YouTube The making of Gin involves the use of botanicals to give it flavour. All kinds of ingredients can be used in the distillation process to imbue the final product with different properties. Our friends at Louth Distillery run a Gin school and stock a…
Oriental Poppy Flower Photography – Watch on YouTube ‘Royal Wedding’ is the white and purple variation of Papaver Orientale. Poppies are more commonly seen as the bright red flower, filling fields and garden plots, but our flower today is just as interesting up close. In this Oriental Poppy flower photography tutorial, we’re using lighting and…
Top tips for how to use The Adaptalux Studio – Watch on YouTube We often show the Adaptalux Studio in action in our demo videos and macro photography tutorials, but often time is a limiting factor and some of the more nuanced functions and operations of our lighting can be glossed over. In this article,…
Use a Hula Hoop to improve your creative outdoor macro photography! – Watch on YouTube How can we push ourselves to be more creative? It’s hard to come up with new macro photography ideas to try outdoors, so we’re using an aid to help push our creative outdoor macro photography outside of our comfort zone!…
Using an LED macro light source to photograph Conkers! – Fountain Pen Macro Photography In this article we are using the new Adaptalux Pod Mini to photograph Conkers! Conkers is a popular game played using the seeds of the horse chestnut tree. They were a common sight on the end of a string before the…
