Still Life, and Macro awards. “Macro photography demands not just spot on technique but a highly creative outlook that broadens the way you approach subjects,” the contest guidelines suggest.

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Anand Varma offers his tips for mastering macro photography—a surprising glimpse into the small world. A honeybee (Apis mellifera) emerges from its ...

For example, a macro lens will help you to take extreme close-ups ... you can depict anything. One of the joys of still-life photography is that it's not resource intensive. They key is lighting, and ...

This was no mere update of the Canon EF 100mm F2.8 L Macro IS USM lens for Canon's DSLR cameras. Instead, it realized the true potential of Canon's mirrorless mount for macro photography ...

I dive into DxO PureRaw 5 for the first time to see how it handles noise reduction and detail recovery on both sample and personal RAW images.

Have an older iPhone? Don't worry, you can still access the iPhone 13 Pro's fancy new macro lens. The Halide 2.5 app update brings macro photography — aka, extreme closeup shots — to the ...

Once photographers had moved beyond the painterly still life they soon found that, in photography, the closer you got the more majestic became the compositions. Ansel Adams, the great recorder of ...