OK, so now I'm going to talk about macro photography and I'm going to go outside and show you an example
of how I do this myself.
So what is macro?
Macro is just a film term for shooting extreme Close-Up, commonly done on insects and plants and other
forms of nature.
And back in those film days, you needed a special lens and fancy equipment in order to do this.
But now the iPhone has such a small, versatile lens that you can go from shooting faraway landscape
photography to portraits to macro photography without changing anything.
But there are a few things that you can do while shooting macro on your iPhone to get a better shot.
I'm going to go outside and show you an example and talk about why I'm doing what I'm doing.
OK, so I found these flowers just in the middle of downtown, you really don't have to go far for a
macro shot.
And what I'm going to do is click on the number two option to switch to a longer lens, which is going
to give us a little bit more of a zoom in.
And I'm going to find a good flower that has a bunch in the background.
And I'm going to click on it to focus on it.
You can also click on the background if you want to focus on the background.
We're going to click on the flour and then I'm just going to get into a good position and take a shot.
And you might want to take a few and then what I've done is found a couple just pieces of flour or whatever
this plant is, and I'm going to use it to put in the bottom of the frame a lot closer to the camera
in the foreground.
And that's just going to kind of close in the frame and really help drive the eye towards that middle
flower.
So then just take another shot and again, just make sure that you take a few shots.
And then here is what that shot looks like.
And then you can also zoom in on it and it's going to give you a much closer shot.
And you can see there's little water droplets and everything.
The iPhone does a really great job with taking macro photos.
And here is what that shot looks like, completely edited.
And I'm also going to be showing you how to edit your photos like this on your phone a little later
in this course.