Macro (Part II - Flowers)

The Click Away conference has been wonderful! The best part is that I have inspiration oozing out my ears! If you wanted to go and couldn't come this year, I'll recommend that you meet me here next year, because I am SO coming again! I don't have any pics to show for the conference, but like I mentioned earlier, I'm going to keep posting macro images through the week so you can keep seeing what this amazing lens does. Macro images are just about getting really close to objects to make them appear large in the frame. Most lenses can't get very close to focus on something. Their "focal length" is the minimum distance that a lens can be to a subject and still focus and most lenses won't let you get much closer than a few inches. But macro lenses have a really small focal length, allowing the photographer to get really close... which is great is your trying to photograph really little things!

Another fabulous thing about macro lenses, is that they really create amazing blurry backgrounds for the subject in today's case flowers. Even busy plants suddenly blur into an amazing backdrop.

I'd like to mention that although I'm showing images that I shot with a 100mm macro lens, Canon has more than one macro lens. Canon makes a 50mm, 60mm, a 65mm, 2 different 100mm (that I talked about here) and a 180mm. And Nikon has even more than that!

Photographing flowers is a fun easy subject when shooting a macro. Suddenly even the tiniest of flowers is visible with lots of detail, amazing details that I didn't even notice before are so obvious when close up! I took the following images in the last month.

I hope you enjoyed the flowers and can see all the little amazing things that is God's handiwork!