Macro Photography – Still Life

Macro photography of still life scenes was really fun for me to work on. I love setting up a still life scene to photograph in general, so getting close up and seeing them in a different perspective was awesome. I learned a lot about the precision and tact that it takes to get the still life macros just right.

For these pictures, I tried to have the same or similar settings to other macro photos I’ve taken, but with a bit less light. I wanted to create more of a contrast between the darks and lights in the photos so I had a lower ISO (about 640) with a high aperture (around F/14) and a shutter speed that was fast enough to avoid camera shake (1/250). With the right combination and lots of testing I was able to produce the pictures that I wanted and the right look overall.