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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Achieving striking images of insects with very high levels of magnification might initially seem simple. Ideas like “I can do it with that lens” or “I just need to get very close to the subject” are some of the most common assumptions regarding this technique.

These preconceptions are closely related to the technique which, while important, is not everything. Online, we find confusing information that is always related to getting close to the subject.

To achieve images that surprise and excite in macro photography, we need to balance technique, lighting, composition, and artistry, to reveal an infinite set of structures, functions, and colors that are impossible to appreciate with the naked eye.

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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

The world of small. An approach to the universe of arthropods from an artistic, visual and evolutionary perspective

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.

Lightroom Presets – Macro Wild – Small Collection

Are you ready to take your photos to the next level? With just one click you can apply the exact settings on your editing that I use myself for all my macro wildlife photos but that doesnt mean that you can aply them to a diferent kind of work.

The small collection includes 8 presets that perfectly fits my style of editing that you now can get access to for both your computer and your phone.

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The Full Collection includes 28 presets that perfectly fit my editing style that you can now access for both your computer and your phone.

How does it work?

When you have purchased the presets, you can download them via the link shown after checkout or via the link sent to your email.

What is included?

– 28 presets for Lightroom Classic

– 28 presets for Lightroom CC & Mobile App

– A document with  a link to the installation manual

Please note; every preset won’t be perfect for every photo and you most likely will need to make adjustments after using the preset to receive the desired result.

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The Medium Collection includes 16 presets that perfectly fits my style of editing that you now can get access to for both your computer and your phone.

How does it work?

When you have purchased the presets you can either download them via the link shown after check out, or via the link sent to your email.

What is included?

– 16 presets for Lightroom Classic

– 16 presets for Lightroom CC & Mobile App

– A document with  link to the installation manual

Please note; every preset won’t be perfect for every photo and you most likely will need to make adjustments after using the preset to receive desired result.

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The small collection includes 8 presets that perfectly fit my editing style that you can now access for your computer and phone.

How does it work?

When you have purchased the presets, you can download them via the link shown after checkout or via the link sent to your email.

What is included?

– 8 presets for Lightroom Classic

– 8 presets for Lightroom CC & Mobile App

– A document with  a link to the installation manual

Please note; every preset won’t be perfect for every photo and you most likely will need to make adjustments after using the preset to receive the desired result.

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A 1-hour session where we can address whatever you need: Technique, composition, lighting, and edition.

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