Why I take Photographs - Part II

"Photomacrography"

which is

Macro Photography

which is

close magnification - taking a close-up to see the
tiny details.

I first heard of Macro photography on Facebook.
One of my FB friends invited me to join the group.
I didn't know what it was, so I googled it to find
out more. I decided that I wanted to learn more
about this aspect of photography to I joined the
group. The photos were amazing! And I read that
you could use your point n shoot camera to get
some pretty good shots.

So I found out that my point and shoot camera
has a built in setting for Macro (the little flower) -
(who knew?)
I never experimented with any of those other options
(the little pictures)
before this.

All excited to start, I went outside in my garden
and started to experiment with shooting some
flowers. I must have taken 100 photos. When
I uploaded them into the computer there were
only a couple that I considered okay.

These were some of my first ---

I was really amazed at this shot because I
never dreamed that I would see the pollen!
Things that your eye doesn't normal see
in passing; you can find in the macro photos.

Now of course I'm not going to get results as I
would if I had a DSLR camera with the proper lenses.
(It's not in my budget at this time to purchase one.)

Learning Process

I want to learn to use my point and shoot camera
with all it's features first - I want know it inside
out.
I comfort myself by saying that you wouldn't teach
someone who never sewed before on one of those
complicated embroidery machines? No, you would
teach them first on a very simple machine to
learn the basics first.




So this is why I enjoy taking macro photos -
It's a chance to study and question what I see.
Even if it's a bug!

Or a bee

Or two

Or a -----

A big juicy spider!

Having Lunch!

Or just a dragonfly

If a photo doesn't come out quite the way
that I wanted it; I play with it in Photoshop---






Cool ! huh!

I also use these photos to get color ideas
for my painted and dyed fabrics!

Why I take photographs:

1 - to document
2 - tell a story
3 - whatever catches my eye
4 - I am in control of what I see
5- to share the beauty and wonder of nature
with others.
6 - to learn
7 - to play
8 - to study and question
9 - colors to use in my fabric
10 - it's artistic
11 - It relaxes me and puts me in a joyful and
contemplative mental state of mind.
12 - Allowing the viewer to share a moment
in your life - (to see what you see, to feel what
you feel)
13 - A photo is a personal moment - a relationship -
one between the subject and the photographer.
14 - I just love it!

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching,
of loving. What you have caught on film is
captured forever...it remembers little things,
long after you have forgotten everything.”
Aaron Siskind





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