This year those smaller projects include black and white, macro art and still life. The still life project ... focused on the ways black and white photography can be used to emphasize textures ...

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.

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 ...

In macro photography a 1:1 ratio is desirable. Meaning that the image in your camera, or on your monitor is the same size as the subject is in real life ... lens but can still yield some decent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...