macro photography

I used macro mode and manual focus to take this image. I think this is effective because as well letting us see the otherwise quite invisible spider's web in more detail, it also has made the rest of the image so out of focus that the background has become very blurred and the bits of light coming through the leaves appear as circles. I think this makes the picture more appealing as they make it look more attractive and add a different element to it rather than it simply being an image of a spiders web.

Although the subject of this image is the leaf overall, the focusing and placement of the leaf means that the front is primarally the main point of the photograph. This is effective as most of the interesting things are going on here, and our attention is drawn to the holes in the front of the leaf and the frayed edges. This makes the image much more interesting to look at than just a plain leaf took stright on would be.

This image is positioned and focused so that the area inside this tube is the main subject area of the image and that the rest is blurred out. This is effective as although we can't really see inside of this space as it's quite dark, our eyes are still drawn there first and i think this makes the viewer want to find out more about what is in the tube where the camera doesn't show us.

I like this image because at this angle we can see a lot of the subject. It is taken from a level of where the rose's head would have stood probably a week or so earlier, and this way we can tell that the rose it dying and drooping downwards. The use of macro mode and manual focus meant that all the attention was on the rose head and you can see details such as the petals starting to loose colour and fray around the edges. I think the colour of the rose is a great contrast against the other dull colours in the background and makes sure your attention is immediately drawn to it.

I used macro mode and manual focus to take this image. This helped to just get the spider and it's web in focus, and blurred out all the background. I think this is effective because it means the spider is more noticeable and becomes the main subject of the image. It also helps us to notice the smaller details of both the web and spider, and therefore becomes more effective.

rather than just being took straight on, this image was taken from the side, which means we get to see the shadows made by the light the must be coming from above the subject of the photograph.



I think this image gives a nice contrast between man made things and nature, and also shows the relationship between them as we can see the the leaves have simply grew around the fence, rather than let it get in it's way. There isn't really and extreme close up in this image, but macro mode was still used alongside manual focus to capture it. this means that anything beyond the fence is out of focus and blurred, meaning we only pay attention to the fence, the lock and leaves.

This image appears to have been took from an insect's eyelevel or POV. I think this is quite effective asit puts the viewer on the same level as the dead wasp that is the subject of this image. It makes it much more notciable and gives us a better view of it than just an ariel shot would have.

I like this image of the snail trail because it appears as though it's from a snail or another small insects POV. The use of macro mode and manual focus means that even though it's very faint, the trail is the main subject of this image and 

This image is a high angle areial shot of some holly. The focus on this means that we can only really see the top peice of holly as the rest is out of focus and blurred.

I like the angle this image has been taken from because the fact that it's taken from beneath the subject really shows how they vines are climbing up the wall and exaggerates this. However, although this image is effective in the that way, it doesn't really show an extreme close up of anything as macro photography should.

This is a very close up shot of a feather with rain droplets on it, which was took using macro mode and manual focus. This image is unusual because normally an image of a feather would be taken from the opposite end. Also, we can see that this feather is bent in the middle, which means that as a result only part of the feather is actually in focus. This part just so happens to be the lighter, middle section of the feather, which gives it contrast and depth. the use of Marco mode and only focus being on the feather means that we can see the water droplets very clearly and therefore gives the image another element and makes it more interesting.



This shot was taken from a high angle and looks straight down onto the subject. The use of macro mode and focus again means that we only really see the leaves in this image as the rest is not in focus and therefore blurred out. This creates the rule of thirds as there is not just one leaf dead on centre, but several who basically cover the whole frame.