Description
Book Synopsis52 Assignments: Macro Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.
This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year’s worth of weekly tasks and assignments devised to help you capture perfect macro images. From shooting flowers and fungi to bubbles and insects, this book is designed to be the most efficient and enjoyable way to shake off old habits and discover new approaches to taking macro photographs.
Each assignment has been written to show you different techniques that will give you the best macro photos possible. Whether you’re photographing in natural woodlands or manmade cities, each assignment encourages you to pay attention to the details and look at the world through a microscopic lens. Whilst full of technical advice and professional tips, there is plenty of journal space for your own personal notes including tech specs, lists and other important memos to record your creative journey. If you plan to dip in and out of the book whenever you need inspiration or planning to follow week-by-week, this book will be sure to bring a new concept and creative approach each time you open it.
Assignment topics include: Contrasting textures, Reflectors, Gels, Flash, Magnifying Glass, Insects, Miniature Scenes, Weather, Extension Rings, Ring Light, Translucent, Light Trails, Out-of-Focus.
- New title in the bestselling 52 Assignments series
- A year’s worth of weekly photography assignments to kick-start your creativity
- Innovative briefs from a leading photographer
- Macro photo challenges in a format to fit in your camera bag
- Aimed at beginners and enthusiasts
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Assignments:
1. Magnified
2. Mobile phone
3. Texturality
4. Close-up filters
5. At the beach
6. Reversing ring
7. Softly does it
8. Taking the tube
9. Reflected
10. Flower power
11. Silhouette
12. Minamalism
13. Abstracted
14. Rainbow colours
15. Museum
16. Hard light
17. Bokeh
18. Making a scene
19. Frosty
20. Flame on
21. Fossils
22. Scanned
23. Slick technique
24. Light trails
25. It’s a bug’s life
26. Ice
27. High key
28. Up in smoke
29. Fungi
30. Jewellery
31. Ringing around
32. Coins
33. Flash diffuser
34. Mixed lighting
35. Low key
36. Raindrops
37. Computed
38. Movies
39. Gels
40. Contrast
41. Facial features
42. Translucent
43. Product photography
44. Soap bubbles
45. Black and white
46. Kitchen implements
47. Freezing water droplets
48. Carbonated water
49. Stacked
50. Bellows
51. Musical instruments
52. Bellows
