Comments on: Who uses macro photography?

By: Maciek Kuzminski

Maciek Kuzminski — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:48:38 +0000

I am interested in microphotographi in dentistry. I am lookig for any knowledge in this field. I wold like to make photos of images from endodontic microscope. I am especially interested in photos of canals ( they are narrow and darker then the rest). I wonder if I should use body of profesional camera or rather compact camera (it has smaller matrice and maybe needs less light???)

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:55:50 +0000

Thanks everyone. you have been very helpful in answering the same question i am asked for my uni assignment!

By: nikita

nikita — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:59:41 +0000

great blog.

anyways…. i love macro. i shoot with it always. it may delay the shutter time a bit.. ? but i love the extra detail it captures.

By: Doug Chinn

Doug Chinn — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:16:47 +0000

Hi, I’ve been messing with ’smokeography’ since I tripped over some of your work, on STROBIST I believe. You ain’t wrong when you say that you learn something new every session. Does that mean that it’s just an infuriating, but addictive, aspect? My limited experience of commercial macro’ is limited to detail shots of flowers, and a catalogue I once undertook to shoot for a joke company of all things!! There is probably more macro’ out there than you, or I fofr that matter, imagine. That’s why it’s kept it’s novelty value. When you see a good macro’ shot, WOW, the impact is right there, in your face! Let’s just hope that ’smokeography’ and macro’ never become so commonplace that we cease to be amazed.

All The Best, Doug. :-)

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:52:43 +0000

Well, it’s funny you should ask…I just spent an entire evening at Borders Books painfully looking for a book on Macro Photography, with hope that it would help me improve my photos for the coins I sell on Ebay. To my surprise and frustration, I couldn’t find a whole lot on the subject (for novices like myself) of Photographing shiny objects such as coins…In what is such an enormous market on Ebay. So…I purchased your book, which is how I found my way here…So, I’m new and looking for help, beyond my scanner. By the way, I sat down with about a dozen books before I decided to purchase yours…Wish me luck!

By: yasser el hawari

yasser el hawari — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:18:19 +0000

root canal treatment is a field that need surgical microscope and may be using a digital camera with macro lense could do the same

By: star

star — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:45:41 +0000

your website is very attractive and informative one.iam very interested in photography.please send me the important information about the photography.
thank you very much.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:10:22 +0000

I shoot macro and enhance with image stacking software check out the Japanese doll composed of 125 images.

By: judy

judy — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:12:06 +0000

I take macro photos on my job in Pathology at a hospital. Some surgical specimens are really impressive. The hospital has a weekly tumor board and the Pathologists present micro slides of tumors by projecting the images. Occassionally one of my “gross” photos is included. Also lately some patients have requested photos of their specimens. Sometimes I photograph a uterus with fibroids, email it to the OBGYN then he or she “goes over” the photo on the computer on a follow up visit.

By: David

David — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:37:36 +0000

You might check with the modern cosmetic dentist or dental surgeon.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:16:37 +0000

Check out Jane Davenport’s work here in Australia. Gorgeous http://www.janedavenport.com/lbc_gallery.html

By: Circa Bellum

Circa Bellum — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:31:20 +0000

eBay! I use my macro (or micro as Nikon puts it) lens all the time for illustrating maker’s marks, flaws, just about anything that needs to be shown to sell my stuff!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:56:19 +0000

http://www.brunelmicroscopes.co.uk/ - all manner of helpful things on there.

By: Brian Larter

Brian Larter — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:20:01 +0000

Macro photography is used a lot in research and education when it comes to tiny objects of course.

By: Marwood

Marwood — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:32:05 +0000

People taking the same picture of insects over and over again.

By: ben-s

ben-s — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:52:31 +0000

Macro is used a lot in nature photography.
It’s also widely used in technical circles (ie. fault reports, when something has blown up)
Low magnification macro is often used in product manual and catalogue photography too.
As for photomicrography, it’s bascially anything you would put under a microscope.

By: Tim Johnson

Tim Johnson — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:40:26 +0000

I’ve always been impressed by this super-macro photo I saw on Flickr quite some time back:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artsyscience/51311029/

By: Snailrind

Snailrind — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:22:32 +0000

Hi. I own a lot of field guides to things like arthropods, rocks and minerals, flowers, and the like. They require a great deal of macro photography.