Macro Photography Ideas You Can Do At Home
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- Even if you're stuck at home, there are a ton of amazing macro and close-up photography subjects you can photograph! I've made a list of my personal favorites in hopes of giving you some useful ideas. Some of these are a blast to photograph!
If you feel like you haven't been doing enough photography recently because you can't travel to as many places as usual, this video is for you. One of the biggest strengths of macro and close-up photography is that you can do it anywhere, including in your home, and get amazing results.
I admit that some of these ideas are a bit unusual, like freezing custom-made clear ice to get more interesting patterns and structures, but that's just part of being a macro photographer!
Along with that, I will point out that you don't technically need a macro lens for most of these photo ideas. Even kit lenses tend to have pretty decent maximum magnifications around 1:4 or so, which is enough to take great pictures of most of these subjects. A macro lens certainly helps if you want to get closer, though.
I also recommend searching around and coming up with your own ideas for this type of photography. With some creativity, there’s really no limit to what you can photograph.
As always, let me know below if you have any questions! Thanks for watching!
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One of the best vidoes I've seen on the subject of ideas for macros in your home. Great job.
Great ideas. Thanks for posting this. Going to attempt some of these today.
The orange slice backdrop being brought back visually in the droplets is just beautiful!
Really appreciate it! I’ve seen something similar where a photographer captured an upside-down 2D world map with a similar setup, making a perfect globe with the droplet. There’s so much creative potential in this type of macro photography!
CD water trick I found works also with rain on a car window. It creates a look that you're underwater looking up at water bubbles.
Awesome tips Spencer!
We need more videos from this guy!!
Thank you so much for so many bits of inspiration... This will keep me busy for a bit 🤩 cheers!
Great job Spencer! I have been taking macro shots on my own for several months - mostly of wildflowers - I’ve learned a lot, but seeing your videos inspires me to go a little further!
Cool ideas, i will try for sure.
Fantastic Spencer, You’ve brightened my Day’s! DG New Forest UK
I like how you show us how to, not just ideas, in quick and understandable ways. I didn't find many videos like this. Thank you :)
Glad you liked it, thanks Terri!
fantastic! I wanna try everything!
Wow thank you for the great ideas. Macro is my favorite photography.
You are very welcome! Macro photography is amazing, glad you liked these ideas.
Very inspiring Spencer. You're showing the many doors that are just waiting to be opened. bravo.
Excellent! That’s the goal!
Well done. Creative - thinking outside the box!
Much appreciated!
Thanks Spencer! Beautiful work and inspiring! Maybe I can so something with all the clutter I have around :)
Absolutely! Just experiment and I'm sure you'll find some great subjects.
Superb ideas! Thank you Spencer
Sure thing, glad you liked them!
Bravissimo!👏👏👏📷🇮🇹🇮🇹
Hello Friend.
Good ideas and good photos.
Great tips
Those oil shots are sooooooo good !
Very nice video !👌
5:53 Thats just so freaking good, I love it !
Im getting a macro lens tomorrow and Im hyped to see what I can achieve.
Im getting a vintage macro lens called Panagor 90mm f2.8 which will cost me only 80€ and is in perfect conditon. - so yeah lets see how it will perform.
Maybe I will talk about my experience with it here in one week or so 🤔🤷♂️
That's so cool! Sorry that my response was a few days late, but when you test out that lens, I'm very interested in how it performs. I haven't used vintage lenses like that myself, although I'd like to try it out at some point. Oh, and glad you liked the video 😄
Macro is so fun
Nice ideas 👍🏼 wouldn’t have thought of those.
Thanks, Terry! Glad they could provide some inspiration!
Great ideas, like it ! Did the oil in water one with a psychedelic pictures on my ipad underneath...
That’s awesome! Sounds like you got some great results.
very interesting tips and tricks play around using home base items...
Glad you think so!
Good stuff.
Very helpful. Have you tried taking pictures of coins? Avoiding the reflection of light on shiny coins is very difficult even with the use of LED ring light.
Amazing your creativity. Thanks for your help. I bough one laowa 25mm and I try with it.
That’s awesome, hope it goes well!
Awesome!!!!
Thanks!!
Amazing oh my
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Great Ideas.
Thanks! Glad you liked them.
I am trying some of these things. So much potential.
Awesome! Have fun. There are a ton of good macro subjects you can find with some creative thinking.
Hello sir, new to your channel, this is a really amazing video with lots of new ideas, I do have a question that can we achieve all these results using a kit lens 18-55mm?
Yes, in almost every case! Zoom in to 55mm and focus (probably manually) at the closest focusing distance. You’ll actually get a surprisingly good close-up view.
Thank you sir, will surely try out!❤
Those pictures are so creative, I love it!
The one with ice gave me an idea for a challenge: Macro or top-down landscape photo? :D
Thanks, Natalia! Good idea. Sometimes it’s so hard to tell. I’ve taken some drone photos from 200 feet up that look eerily similar to that macro shot. There are so many patterns in nature that keep reappearing regardless of scale. I love finding anything like that for photography.
Awesome!
Thanks, John!
@@PhotographyLifeChannel Could you please also do one video like this using mobile macro lens?. Thanks.
@@IamPidugu The big problem with mobile macro photography is simply a lack of light. You could easily do the oil+water idea, the ice idea, and the CD idea with a macro attachment for your phone. But the moment you need to freeze action for images like water droplet photography, you simply need a flash. Luckily, there are more subjects you *can* photograph than can’t, but you’ll need to do some trial and error to make it work!
@@PhotographyLifeChannel That’s really really helpful. Thank you. 🤝
Useful content, capably presented w/o distracting hype.👍 Nicely presented recap of ideas elsewhere covered (clear ice “how to” newish). Just subscribed. You connect well w/viewers, but audio on this post has bit of echo. Take care.
Really appreciate your feedback, and welcome to the channel! Your comment is completely on-point. Other than the ice idea, these are based on my favorite ideas I’ve seen elsewhere. And there definitely is some audio echo - I dampened the room afterwards, and the video I’m publishing tomorrow sounds much better to my ear.
great
I found using a computer screen can make a great backdrop using images on screen.
OR grab your polarizing filtter pop it on the lens, open a blank (white) page on screen and put something made from plastic between the screen and lens. Turning the filter will the stress of molding and using the object.in bright colours. Some great ideas to try. 👍👍
Yeah, that’s an awesome idea! Polarizers can lead to some strange patterns any time LCDs are involved.
Kind of along the same lines, you could put a tablet under the oil/water setup and pop up your own photos underneath for the background! Pretty trippy.
@@PhotographyLifeChannel tablet under sounds fun 👍
super :-)
Thank you!
which camera you use?
Hei bro. Which sony camera will u choose for both wildlife photography and landscape photography...
Plz suggest?
It really depends on your budget. But the most flexible line is the standard A7 series, specifically the A7 III at the moment. 24 megapixels may not be the highest number you’ll see on the market today, but it’s more than enough for landscapes, wildlife, or anything else. You could go for the A7R IV if you need more pixels, or the A9 if you need maximum autofocus performance, but I’d put the money toward lenses instead.
@@PhotographyLifeChannel oh. Ok.
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At 2:21, what do you mean by "freeze it in the pan from earlier"? In the video, you seem to put the cups in the freezer. So I don't understand what the significance of the pan is?
The pan holds extremely salty saltwater, which doesn’t freeze as easily. It basically creates a temperature gradient that allows the bubbles to rise out of the freshwater in the cups.
I need a flash 😫
Camera? Check
Household items? : Check
Macro lens?.... Uncheck
It definitely doesn’t need to be a formal macro lens. Most kit lenses have a pretty good maximum magnification, and should be suitable for literally all of these photo ideas. I call it “macro” photography in the title, but I don’t think I ever exceeded 1:4 magnification for the shots in this video (maybe for the ice, but that one is easy enough to just freeze a bigger piece of ice in a larger container).
Good video but I had to leave because of the dreadful, distracting music! What’s wrong with silence so we can hear you speaking?
Fair point! I think this is my most music-heavy video and it’s because my voice audio track had some ugly background noises.
That fruit idea is not macro..