Discover macro photography projects created on location, with practical techniques for working outdoors, managing changing conditions and using portable lighting to capture subjects in their environment.
Butterfly Macro Photography – Lesser Purple Emperor Butterfly – Watch on YouTube In this butterfly macro photography article, we’re taking a close-up look at the unique iridescent wings of the Purple Emperor butterfly. The Purple Emperor is increasingly rare in the UK, but we have access to some well-preserved specimens thanks to the MSc Biological…
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…
Capturing Frozen Spider Web Macro Photos – Watch on YouTube Spider webs are both notoriously strong for their size, yet delicate and vulnerable to changes around them. One of those hazards for keeping a web intact is the changing seasons. In this article, we’re aiming to capture some frozen spider web macro photos as we…
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!…
Watch on YouTube – Seaside Food Macro photography Ideas We have been out on a day-trip to the beach! We went to Skegness looking for some seaside food macro photography ideas. There are lots of colourful and interesting foods on offer at the classic british seaside resort, so let’s take a look at some up…
Wild Mushroom Macro Walk: Tips for macro photography in the woods – Watch on YouTube We have been on a trip into the woods for a wild mushroom macro walk! We don’t often shoot outside, but with the arrival of the Adaptalux Flash Lighting Arms, it’s the perfect opportunity to go into the field for…
To continue our series of Adaptalux experiences from professional photographers (read Tonya Wilhelm’s thoughts here), we put an Adaptalux Starter pack in the hands of world renowned photographer Simon Norfolk. He asked to use an Adaptalux Studio to aid in his recent assignment to shoot archaeological artefacts in Jerusalem. Read on to see what Simon…
