Macro Photography Without A Macro Lens

Macro photography is an outstanding way to express your photography.

and also these types of images take lots of attention than normal photographs.

and the main part of macro photography is capturing macro photographs around yourself is too much fun.

or more fun comes when we capture macro photos without a macro lens

So in this article, I’m going to share some basic tricks to get macro photographs without any macro lens.

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Macro Photography Without A Macro Lens

here is some important tips that you need to know and learn to master macro photography.

Basic Tips And Tricks

Basically, when we buy any D-SLR either canon or Nikon we get an 18-55mm kit lens and it’s not a macro lens.

so I’m going to use this lens as an example to perform Macro photography and click macro photos using this lens.

Best canon lens to bought after 18-55MM lens

Identify Where Is Your Object

To capture macro photographs firstly you need to identify your object.

Reason

because right now we are not using any macro lens to click macro photographs so we need to first identify our object’s place.

so if our object is a living thing then we need to apply a different way and if it’s a non-living thing then there is another different method.

let’s understand this…

When our object is a Living thing

Like some butterfly, insects, etc which moves rapidly at that time we must need some distance otherwise we’re not able to capture images.

so at that time just make sure you are as close as possible and zoom in your lens to get better macro photos, that’s one trick to capture When your object is a Living thing.

Or another trick ( only for professional photographers ) who really wants some awesome macro photographs.

so for this, the photographer needs to stand along with thair tripod at one place, and when any other object like a butterfly, etc came just simply press the shutter button without any noise.

right now there are lots of photographers who literally stand in one position for two-three or more hours to capture the best macro photographs.so it’s not easy as we think.

but in the end, you earn the best photograph, and that thing matters a lot for you, so keep practicing and never give up.

When our object is a non-living thing

That’s too much easy to click better macro photographs than shooting macro photographs with living things.

because in this case, you don’t need to worry about the object.

you can change the angle as many times as you want.

because the subject remains at same place, so if your object is a nonliving thing then just simply go little closer to your object and using Manual Mode click best macro photographs.

Bonus For You

Get the Best Macro photograph over living Objects

So for this first of all click macro photograph(take as possible as closer distance and blurry background).

After getting your macro photograph as you can see this picture clicked by me Using Canon 1300D 18-55 mm.

just crop it

Now you can see the difference between these two images.

that’s the best method to Get the Best Macro photograph over living Objects.

Does Tripod Plays a big role to get sharper Macro photographs !??

Yes, that was right.

If your object is a nonliving thing then just set your tripod to get sharper images.

the reason behind using a tripod is that it allows you to shoot at an aperture (like f/16 or f/22) to get a wider depth of field and even more of your macro subject in focus.

So you get sharper and some blurry images.

Make Home Made Tri-Pod !! Money Required!!

Extension Tubes

This tube works as one tunnel between your 18-55mm lens and your D-SLR Lens mount.

(where your 18-55mm lens gets connected with your D-SLR).

So basically this tunnel or tube works as one zooming lens.

which creates more distance between your main lens and lens mount so because of this you get better macro photographs with living or nonliving objects.

and it’s too cheap to use rather than buying a new macro 50mm lens or any other prime lenses, this type of Extension tubes contains a price of around 10$.

BUY EXTENSION TUBES

Home Made Extension Tubes

This tip is a little bit tricky if you are not a professional photographer then DO NOT TRY THIS!!

it may harm your Lens, So this trick is totally FREE!!.

for this, first of all, you need to remove the camera lens from the lens mount and then turn on your D-SLR.

turn on live shooting mode so you can see the object in 3 inch LCD display.

after this, take a little distance between your D-SLR Lens mount and your lenses like Tunnel and manual handle the focusing of 18-55mm lens.

and when you see sharper output on the LCD screen just capture the image.

To get more macro photographs I do these tricks.

it’s too much easy and always gives you a better result if your hands are steady and if you know how to handle your D-SLR’s manual focus.

that’s my basic Home Made Extension Tubes strategy.

So that’s my top tips and tricks to get a master’s in macro photography without any macro lens.

if you have a macro lens then there is no issue for you.

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Manthan

Hi, I'm Manthan I'm a professional photographer and founder of photographywith.com. this site hosts all of my writing on photography stuff like blogs, reviews, editing, and much more. whatever I learn new, I publish here as a blog with some good and easy examples. Cheers, Manthan

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