Playing around with close-up photography is a lot of fun, especially once you have invested in a dedicated macro lens for your camera. However, macro lenses may not be able to give you as much depth ...

[Samuel Sargent] built his own lens for making stacked macro images.This project, which was completed as part of his senior thesis, utilizes a Zeiss enlarger lens. The aperture ring was broken, making ...

YouTuber “Curious Scientist” has published a new project showing how you can use Arduino together with a a few extras to create a macro photography rig enabling you to capture close-up photographs.

Windows only: Free utility CombineZM uses an image technique called focus stacking to combine multiple photos together, allowing for a wider depth of field, and clear, sharp images—a useful technique ...

Undoubtedly, one of the most significant improvements on the Pixel 7 series is the camera, both in software and hardware. With that, a new Macro Focus mode has made its way to the Pixel 7 Pro, and it ...

Ditch autofocus for manual focus mode to get more precise control over your shots. Find out how to get started using manual focus, and which scenarios call for it. Sharon Profis Former Vice President ...

Macro photography lets you see the natural beauty of the tiny things all around us. You can get in close to your subject—flowers, bugs, coins, you name it—by activating your camera’s macro mode ...

Focus stacking makes for fantastic macro images, but the process can be tedious without the right tools. While some focus stacking rigs require the camera to be moved away from the subject in small ...

This article is part of our roundup of iPhone camera lenses. I like bees. Very much. And macro photos of bees? They send me over the (magnified) moon. Photos taken with so-called macro lenses let you ...

Smartphone cameras have telephoto lenses, wide-angle lenses, lenses made for low-light conditions, and even monochrome lenses; but what do you do if macro shots are your thing? Most phones can get ...