Close-up and Macro Photography

FOURTEEN Understanding Flash

 

NATURAL LIGHT is usually the first choice for conventional macro photography, but it has limitations, especially when working at higher magnifications. Flash is an indispensable tool and the most efficient way to address camera blur and motion. It provides an independent light source, which allows you to operate in challenging situations and achieve results that would be difficult, or perhaps impossible to accomplish with natural light. Other benefits include the use of smaller apertures in situations where you need greater depth of field while using the camera’s optimum ISO. This is especially important when you photograph at magnifications greater than life-size, since the zone of sharpness is so shallow. ...