The Manual of

Close-Up and Macro Photography

Vol. 2 High Magnification and Advanced Techniques

The definitive book – 322 pages, over 750 photographs, 12 tables – for advanced techniques in close-up and macro photography, from 0.1X up to 20X. Appropriate for the advanced practitioner, someone who has experienced the joys and frustrations of working in the close-up range (0.1X to 1X), who is comfortable with the appropriate equipment used for that range, and who has made numerous successful close-up photographs. This volume is appropriate for hobbyists and professionals, medical practitioners, engineers, scientists, lovers of tiny flora and fauna, and subjects living and dead, be they biologic, geologic, mechanical or electronic.

All photographs have been created specifically for this volume. They are not only beautiful and large and easy to see, but there are hundreds that show HOW the photos were made, the equipment used and any lighting setups. Numerous examples show before/after, right/wrong, this way/that way.

Topics covered in great depth include:

• Focus stacking.

• Critical focus, diffraction and depth-of-field.

• Extensive coverage of lenses, standard and unconventional, includ ing microscope objectives for macro work to 20X.

• Configurations for mounting any lens on bellows or extension tubes, including reverse-mounted lenses, coupled lenses, and finite and

infinity-corrected microscope objectives.

• Over 200 pages on lighting: available, indoor, outdoor, flash, continuous, light boxes, tents, cross-polarized and darkfield.

• Post-production suggestions for sharpening, noise-reduction, retouching and special-effects filters.

• Appendices for sources of equipment, 3 pages of online resources and a glossary of over 100 terms.