Follow practical macro photography tutorials covering lighting, camera settings, equipment, composition and creative techniques. Learn from real photography projects and experiments created by the Adaptalux team.
Watch on YouTube – Moss Photography Tutorial with water droplets! When Sam suggested we shoot a moss photography tutorial, it’s safe to say there was some scepticism with how much there would be to see. However, Sam has shot moss before using the early prototypes of the Adaptalux Studio… So he knew how interesting it…
Watch the Video on YouTube – Shooting Fluorescent Flowers Under Ultraviolet Light Before you get started, you may wish to read our Introduction to UV fluorescent photography, a breakdown all about UV photography. When it comes to choosing a subject for ultraviolet induced visible fluorescence photography (UVIVF), fluorescent flowers are a pretty good starting point. Most living…
Watch on YouTube – Oil and Water Photography How-to Guide If you have a macro lens, and you haven’t tried oil and water photography before you are missing out. We have already covered other kinds of bubbles in our dish soap bubble tutorial, but we think this way is easier for beginners. This method of…
Watch on YouTube – Dried Leaf Macro Photography Tips & Tricks Leaves are a popular macro photography subject, we featured them first in our recent Ideas and Inspiration post. However, when dried out, leaves present a brand new challenge for macro photography enthusiasts. With no more vivid green colour, trying to get a dried leaf…
Watch on YouTube – LEGO Photography Lighting with Lasers! It’s a dark, rainy night in LEGO City, dimly lit street corners have become a haven for crime. Our protagonist waits patiently outside the cinema for his target… LEGO Film Noir If you hadn’t guessed by that foreboding intro line, we have been immersing ourselves in…
Watch on YouTube – A creative macro photography lighting tutorial with pocket watches If you have been to see us at The Photography Show in Birmingham, you might recognise this subject. It’s one of our favourites for showing off what you can do with some creativity and the right lighting. Lighting is exactly what we…
Watch on YouTube – How to Photograph Coins Coins are a popular macro photography subject due to their abundance. Everyone has them, and therefore there are a multitude of methods on how to photograph coins. Today we are taking a look at a couple of options to get you started. When talking about how to…
LED macro lighting is one of the many means to light a photograph. We see xenon strobes in studios and natural light for landscapes, but what do LEDs offer for macro photographers? Van Gogh had paint, while as photographers, we have light to colour our canvas. The source of that light is as important as…
Watch on YouTube – Macro Pine Cone Photography For those of you familiar with Adaptalux Studio, you will recognise this subject as one that takes pride of place on the studio homepage as an example of what our kit can do. Pine cones are easy to find in most places, and can make for some really…
What does a macro lens do? Probably a question we all ask in the early stages of learning about photography. It’s not overly obvious before getting hands on, looking through the viewfinder and exploring the macro world. Let’s try to shed some light on macro as a genre, and why macro lenses are important. macro…
