The Complete Guide to Macro and Close-Up Photography

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By Cyrill Harnischmacher

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The Complete Guide to Macro and Close-Up Photography by Cyrill Harnischmacher is an extensive handbook that equips both beginners and experienced photographers with the essential knowledge to excel in macro photography. It covers fundamental concepts, detailed equipment guidance including lenses and accessories, and innovative shooting techniques such as high-speed photography, light painting, and focus stacking. The book explains how to approach subjects both outdoors and in the studio and explores working creatively with different lighting conditions. Featuring over 600 images, practical tips, and do-it-yourself projects, it inspires photographers to explore the minute details of the world around them while refining technical skills and artistic vision.
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This book is ideal for photography enthusiasts ranging from ambitious beginners eager to learn macro photography basics to seasoned professionals seeking advanced techniques and creative inspiration in close-up and macro imagery.

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The Complete Guide to Macro and Close-Up Photography is a comprehensive handbook on macro and close-up photography, offering both ambitious beginners and veteran photographers all the information they need to create great macro photographs.

Experienced photographer and author Cyrill Harnischmacher covers:

Explanations of all the concepts behind close-up and macro photography
Equipment, including camera systems, macro lenses, close-up lenses, extension tubes, and reversing rings
Shooting techniques such as high-speed photography using photoelectric sensors, light painting, focus stacking to extend depth of field, panoramic and infrared macros, extended contrast with HDR technology, and multiple exposures
Tackling subject matter both in the field and in the studio
Working creatively with ambient and artificial light
Countless hands-on shooting tips
Post-processing your macro images

The book also offers insights about macro photo composition, discussing light, colour, camera position, and focus. With more than 600 images and figures illustrating the various ways readers can document the world of the infinitesimal, this book is not only a technical guide but also a source of inspiration, giving readers ideas to run with and make their own.

Finally, the book includes do-it-yourself projects, offering solutions both for everyday shooting as well as for dealing with specific situations unique to macro photography.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781681980522

Publisher: Rocky Nook

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 April 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Rocky Nook

Edition: New edition

Illustration: Illustrations throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 336

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Arts & Culture Cyrill Harnischmacher Non-Fiction

About the Author

After studying liberal arts and working for several years as a graphic artist for various advertising agencies, Cyrill Harnischmacher became an independent graphic artist in 1997. Since then he has written about photography and digital image editing for trade journals and has designed many books for a long roster of publishers. He's worked on both sides of the business as a client and a photographer. His primary interests are macro and tabletop photography, as well as coming up with creative and unusual technological solutions. He's written seven books, several of which have garnered awards and been translated into foreign languages. In 2007, he developed the flash2softbox system, which allows photographers to adapt light shaping tools for professional studio flash equipment to system flash units.