Lighting in Macro Photography

Video Transcript

"Hello, this is Mark Bowers from Bower's Photography in American Fork, at Bower's Photography.com, and in this section we're talking about lighting for macro photography. The key for macro photography is that it requires more light than normal. As the lens zooms up on.....on something that's smaller, it requires more light to get a decent photograph of it. Let me show you something I just did last year. It's a weed that I found out behind...found behind my house. Put the camera on a tripod and photographed this. It's the type of weed that, as you blow on it, the little seeds blow off in the distance. But what I used to get the shot was a set of close up filters. And now, close up filters are...are filters that you set...that you screw on the front of your camera lens, and they bring objects closer. Many times your lens just cannot focus close enough to get a good macro shot. And this is just an easy way to do this. If you're in the studio, and you're lighting this macro photography, you have to bring the lights in closer and add more light to get a good photographs of small objects."