Soon after I started making pictures (over 30yrs ago), I quickly became enamored with “macro” photography (photography of small subjects working with specialized lenses which allow you to focus close to your subject). My first “serious” lens was a used Sigma macro lens. It allowed me to explore nature in a way that made even the yard of my Philadelphia apartment seem like a wilderness.
I continue to explore nature through this close-up photographic technique, although now I do it with a variety of close-focusing lenses and in natural areas rather more diverse than my Philly front yard. However, it is the visual simplicity that I can achieve with macro-photography that really keeps me going back to it.
In the case of the image below, a simple line (leaf edge) and the contrasting almost-perfect orb of dew create an image of simplicity and tension. I am drawn to water droplets as characters in my work. They appear as jewels on misty mornings, after a rain, or when the appropriate dew point and I intersect.
For this image I was working with a Canon 40D and a Canon EF 100mm f2.8 macro lens set at f2.8. I had a shutter speed of 1/640 and set the ISO to 400. I set the camera to Aperture Priority and metered in Pattern mode.
Dew Drop – (c) Paul Grecian – http://www.paulgrecianphoto.com
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I also like the small worlds that are reflected in dew drops. Each one like their own little planet.
Yep, it’s a great escape when you can lose yourself in a drop of water!
AWESOME! I love macro photography also. I appreciate all the details given on this particular shot. Thank you, Mark!! (I found your site from Donna Gephart’s blog a few weeks ago.)
Kathy, thank you so much for your visit and comment! I enjoyed your website as well and I hope to see you here again!