You can have the perfect subject, precise focus, a beautiful composition — and if the light is wrong, the image falls flat. But when the light works, everything shifts. The subject comes alive. The photograph stops being a record and becomes something people can’t look away from.

Light in Macro Photography is the most complete guide you’ll find on illumination applied specifically to the small world. It’s not a technical manual full of formulas. It’s the result of more than 17 years of field photography, understanding how light behaves at extreme close distances, and learning — often the hard way — what works and what doesn’t.

In this ebook you’ll understand, for the first time, why light does what it does. The physics behind how light behaves at macro distances. The real difference between hard and soft light, and how to produce each one intentionally. How to read natural light in the field and use it in your favor. How to set up and diffuse your flash so it stops looking like flash. The difference between TTL and manual, and when to use each. Why shutter speed doesn’t affect your flash exposure — and how that knowledge changes everything. How to create shadows that give your subjects dimension and life. The details that make the difference: catchlights, flash zoom head, color gels, backlight.

All of it grounded in real-world examples, from the field, with the real subjects that those of us who love the small world actually photograph.

If you want your macro images to stop looking flat and start looking like art — this ebook is your next step.

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Take advantage of the Launch Promo, and get the Macro Photography ebook + The world of small book! ou will learn about the technique but also about the amazing world of small. 

Pack: Macro Photography in Nature + The World of Small • Cynthia Bandurek

An E-book where  you will find all the necessary to immerse yourself in this amazing world of small

What can you expect to learn?

Macro photography in nature

How to master the technique

What is macro Photography

Kinds of macro photography

Gear

How to calculate the magnification ratio

The complexities of the technique and how to overcome them

Lighting

Composition

Ethics, conservation, and storytelling

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These pages are an invitation to appreciate a world often unknown, the world of arthropods, discovering its beauty, its complexity and some attractive aspects of their lives, as happen to be some of their strategies for survival and reproduction. This knowledge will help us to see the sense of their behavior and reflect on its importance as living beings, and allowing us to extend this estimate to the rest of the life forms that inhabit every corner of our vast and wonderful planet.

Because of the smallness of these animals and the limitations of our own biology, which prevents us from seeing at first glance certain details, we use technical means such as macro photography to reveal an infinite set of structures, functions and colors, adventuring and overcoming limits crossed by any author of fiction. Exploring and experiencing an approach to the behavior of arthropods, the interstices of this amazing and almost imperceptible universe remain exposed.

240 pages – 170 photos – 2 languages: English/Spanish

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