CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

INTRODUCTION

CLOSE-UP VS. MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY
What Does Macro Mean?
If It’s Not Macro, It’s Close-up Photography
Using Wide-Angle Lenses for Close-up Work
EQUIPMENT
Macro Lenses
Extension Tubes
Close-up Lenses vs. the Canon 500D
Canon 500D and the Wide-Angle
Reversing Rings
Digital Point-and-Shoot Cameras
Wide-Angle Lenses
The Fish-Eye
Reflectors
Ring Flash
Tripods
Small Things
DEPTH OF FIELD & APERTURE
Depth of Field
Correct vs. Creatively Correct Exposure
The Depth-of-Field Preview Button
Exposure without DOF Preview
Specular Highlights
Sunrise, Sunset
CLOSE-UP TIPS
Foreground and Background Framing
Really Filling the Frame
Horizontal vs. Vertical
Texture Up Close
UP CLOSE INDOORS
The Home Studio Setup
The Kitchen
Other Rooms, Other Subjects, Other Light
The “Dewdrop” as Mini Fish-Eye Lens

APPENDICES

Appendix A: VR and IS Lenses Exposed

Appendix B: Macro Magnification Ratios

INDEX