Cose-up lenses just like the little olloclip macro lens are absolutely fantastic for getting
tiny little details and textures in
bugs and little ants heads, though there aren't bugs and ants to be found
and another great way to have fun with these little lenses is to actually freeze subjects
and then photograph the results
and these can make fabulous prints for your home as well.
AdoramaTV presents iPhonepgraphy with Nicki Fitz-Gerald.
Macro photography or close up photography is
absolutely wonderful for getting in close to those little details and textures that
can't normally be seen by the human eye.
Today, this is the first of our two frozen specials
and we're in the Upside Down House courtsey of Dream Cottages
where we'll be discovering lots of natural textures
and pattens in frozen fruit and these beautiful leaves here
and the ice that they're frozen in is going to add a little bit of extra translucent
magic to our images.
So I've got myself a great position here just by the window where there's lots of natural light
and I've got myself nice and comfortable I've got a nice sturdy table
this is going to keep our photographs nice and focused, not much wobble
I've got my gorilla pod here which I'll put my camera in and that's going to
keep my camera
nice and steady we don't want any blur, particularly with macro photography which is
really easy to get when you've got that macro lens on.
Now we've got the olloclip lens here now this comes as a four piece kit, we've
got another macro lens a 15x
and this is great for getting tiny little details like an ant's head or a little spider
but we're going to use the 10x because that's going to give more area
a larger area in focus great for getting pattens and textures.
So to get to that lens we just need to reveal
the little 10x by unscrewing the wide-eye
now it's really important that your lens is clean
so I've got my micro fiber cloth here, really cheap
about £1, and I'll just give that little wipe we can do the same
with our iPhone camera as well because just to make sure we get a
really nice super sharp shot, and then
we're going to attach that to the iPhone camera
it simply clips on like that and then when need to put the camera into
the mount just click that in, avoid the shutter buttons on the bottom
because then you'll stop taking pictures automatically and we don't want that
and that's all set up ready to go. Now I'm going to
just turn the phone on, going to swipe up
to get the camera, now I'm using the Apple camera there's a very
good reason for that and that's because it's got these little filters in this little
icon here with the three colors, if you have a look at that that's got
a grate filter called Chrome which is fantastic for
the strawberry color. So let's have a look t our strawberry
we've got it here and the frost is forming on the top and it's looking
absolutely fantastic, I need to get down a bit higher
for macro photography you need to get your subject really close to the lens about
half a centimeter away so that's a good height.
So that's nice and close
and we just need to find the patten there look at
that patten, thats absolutely brilliant, that looks gorgeous, those little pips are
coming up and the frost is forming on the top it looks absolutely
beautiful now I'm going to be using the timer button of
this I'm going to set it for three seconds, now what this does it means I don't have to
touch the lens if I touch the lense the camera might want full
we need a sharp picture so I'm happy with that I'll click on the button
3, 2, 1, its taken the picture
it looks absolutely fabulous, it saves straight down to the camera roll
I'm really happy with the top of that. Now there's another great thing we can do
and that's to actually turn the strawberry upside down and this is going to reveal
another lot of patten, we'll just turn that out, remove
the glass and just stick that little stalk in there and that will act as a nice support
now that's beautiful. Now whats happened here its exposed from the other photographs so
we probably just need to get that little bit closer I'm going to move my lens down a bit
and then you can see some beautiful patten's
some shards of ice in there and that looks absolutely wonderful
it's got these little details of bubbles and thats
really looking great with the texture
of the strawberry, the combination of that red and the little pips
from the bubbles and shards looks fabulous. So again I'm going to take the
picture, its got a timer on it let's
have a look at the filters here, we've got a lovely selections of filters the chrome works beautifully,
really brings out the bubbles in that strawberry and the textures
and the color particularly. So I'm just going to click away,
the camera will do the rest by itself leave that to take the picture
that looks fabulous and is what I love about macro photography
you never know what you're going to find in those little frozen blocks of ice
it's just a case of looking around, turning the strawberry around,
seeing what you can find, seeing what you can discover, there really is some
fantastic little worlds in there
it's just experimenting, having a look.
Not only has it been great fun
exploring these frozen worlds with our camera, we've now got some great photos on our
album which I think would look great on the walls with a little bit
of apping from Snapseed and Mextures.
So we're going to open these up and see what we can do and just lift these pictures a bit
to make some great prints for our home. The first first one I'm going to open up is
Snapseed, I'm going to find my little strawberry here
open it up and then press you use
and then bring it in to Snapseed. Now the first thing I want to do
is I want to sharpen the center, now this is just going lift the image
and create more interest from the eye when I bring out these little frozen,
frosty bits here and I'm also going to soften the edges and that's going to create a great contrast between
outside and the inside of the image. So the first thing we need to click on
is details, now this is the sharpening part of the process
I'm just going to slide up and you can see you get Sharpening and Structure.
Now if we slide to the right this is lifting
these little frost bits just here, its quite subtle but
just lift it slightly and I've just chosen the option Structure
I'm going to slide my finger to the right again and that's again
its going to lift that sharpening just subtly but it's going to
add a little bit of punch to our picture, I'm going to click on the tick
to say Yes so that will save that effect, and the next thing I want to do
I'm going to blur the outside, make the frame slightly whiter on the outside
and we're going to strengthen the color in
the inside and we're going to do this by using the
center focus option, now we get a little blue dot in the middle,
we can use the pinching motion to actually
change this effect, you can see it's getting darker on that side
and we're just going to open that up a little bit and we've got three options here we have Blur Strength,
Outer Brightness and Inner Brightness. We'll start with the
Blur Strength and if you swipe to the right
you'll get more of a blur on the outside, if we want a super blur
we can just click on that and the strength will be
that much stronger, if we click back again you can see thats sharpened up there
you can see the blur effect, if I bring it in you can see that's quite a
strong blur now on that top left edge.
Now the second thing we're going to do is change the Outer Brightness, we're going to
add some light around the outside give it a white frame
you're going to bring that in, if I swipe to the right you should start to see this
white frame coming in, you can see that's lovely and Christmassy it's gives a lovely sort of soft effect
combined with the blur and the third option we're going to change the Inner Brightness, we're going
to take that down a bit and what that's going to do, its going to sharpen the red in the middle
to create more interest in the center, we've got this nice white frame,
we've softened our strawberry, click on the take
and that has saved that down we can click on the top right hand corner
to save it wherever we like, we can share this online now, save to photo library and
that looks fantastic
and what I want to do is add a final little touch, a subtle touch
in the Mextures app, go to the Mextures app,
click on that, we'll bring the photo we've
just changed, click on the strawberry, don't crop we're happy with the square shape
we've got these lovely textures here, my favorite is the Grunge textures
lovely painterly textures in here, you can apply quite subtle
but it's going to add the same effect as a painterly glaze would, its going to hold it all
together and if you can imagine
applying these effects to a whole set they're going to really
hold together well because they've had the same effect applied to them.
Frozen seems like the right effect to add in this
frozen special, I'm going to turn that up a bit and that should give these nice little
pinky tinge, really nice and soft, really kind of dreamy, I'm
happy with that and because we've shot this in a hi-res
app we've edited in a high-res app, the Mextures app and Snapseed
these are great, these's are good enough to print on the walls, so you can have a great little set
like these behind me now. So take the same pictures at the same time, apply them to
the same apps and those look fantastic!
So you can bring the frozen world indoors
and go one step further by creating your own wonderful abstract images,
have some fun, collect some natural forms freeze them photograph the results and
see what you get, just experiment. I'd love to know how you get on
so please share with me your ideas, leave some comments below.
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