Today we're going to be looking at the world through this little macro
iPhone lens
it's absolutely brilliant, it can magnify the tiniest details for the greatest clarity
and bring everyday objects, flowers and beautiful
undiscovered worlds to life I think when you see this episode
you're never going to see the world quite the same again through the lens of your iPhone.
AdoramaTV presents, iPhoneography with Nicki Fitz-Gerald.
Now not only are these little lenses pretty powerful technically,
they can also open up a whole new range of creative possibilities too
we'll be looking at a whole range of little objects in tiny detail,
and we'll also be discovering miniature worlds in blocks of ice. Now macro lenses are
fantastic for photographing
little tiny things, especially outdoors where the light is really great
but if you're just starting out in macro photography I recommend
you stay indoors with the wind is less likely to blow your subject around.
Now the kit comes with four lenses altogether
we've got the fish-eye on one side, and the wide-eye
on the other side. Now very cleverly housed
underneath these larger lenses, the wide-eye
is the 10X lens, thats the macro lens,
and then underneath the fish-eye we've got
the little 15X lens, thats the larger one thats going to give you greater
magnification. Ok so we're setup near the window here
which has this lovely natural light coming through and what that's going to do
is make our picture really nice and sharp.
Now of we did have a lot of harsh sunlight which we do today
then what you can do is hang up a curtain, a nice white sheet and not diffuse that
light and give us a nice
even light on our subject.
Now we've got our setup with the tripod here, that's going to keep our camera nice and steady
with macro photography it's really easy to get blurred shots
because we're so close up. So just pop the lens
onto the phone like that, snap the camera
into the mount, and then watch out for these little shutter buttons getting caught with the mount
because they'll start taking pictures
and you don't want that, pop the
iPhone earphones into the socket there
and you can start taking pictures with a remote shutter there
if you're not using your timer, either will do. So I'm going to take a range of
photographs with my macro lenses and see what we can get.
I'm using the 10X magnification first of all
that the 10X gets a wider range of detail in focus so its great for this little
flower, it's got
bigger petals to smaller petals, I'm going to get a range of those
in focus. Now you need to get the lens quite close
I'm about a centimeter away there and
the stabilisers or, the tripod is keeping it nice and steady
let's take the photo with the remote shutter thats the headphones I'm using,
plus or minus button click that and we're done, lovely sharp picture
that flower. Now one thing that gets harder to
see as we get older is the needle with a thread
going through it, so let's have a look and see how that looks
under the macro lens. Again this is the 10X macro lens
smaller one than that the other one the 15X,
and you can see, my goodness, you can see that needles so clearly
with the 10X and you can see the bits of thread coming out of the thread itself,
it's that close, that looks fabulous. Ok, let's take a picture
use our remote shutter, click, the picture is done, fantastic!
Now finally I'm going to have a look at this magazine,
what's to look at? Well let's have a look, lets place that under there
and I'll pin just to secure that nice and steady,
and let's get really, really close there.
See those dots, wow, we can actually see the ink
dots that print to make the color of that magazine,
lets take a picture
and if you think that's as far as we can go, lets quickly
flip that lens over, unscrew the fish-eye
to reveal the 15 X magnification lens underneath
just snap that on, close in again
and wow that detail now,
the dots are really, really sharp you can see the little rosettes of the print
that was used to print this magazine fifty years ago
absolutely fabulous, I'm going to take a quick shot with that, wonderful.
Ok, if you've been watching this series you will have seen how
macro lenses, when you shine them on lights, can make the most
fantastic background blur, bokeh. Now
I found this fantastic glitter paper earlier in the week, and if we put
this cactus
just in front of it, this is going to look pretty interesting
under the macro lens, and what we've got is the sharpness of the cactus spikes
they are really, seriously sharp and against the softness of that background bokeh,
background blur, that's going to look great,
I'm going to take a picture I've got a nice shot where
I'm really happy with that.
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Now one really fun thing to do is photograph small objects when they've
been frozen in little blocks of ice
strawberries and also little leaves like this look absolutely fabulous, especially if
you put them up by a window, let the light shine through them they look
absolutely great under a macro lens, its going to pick up all the little dots
and bubbles in that ice. So strawberries when they've just come out of the freezer look
absolutely fabulous, they've got this little bit of frost on them
which really adds a lot of magic to the photograph.
So let's get our camera over here, we've got the little iPhone lens,
attach the macro lenses, I've got the 10 X on here you to get really, really close
to that strawberry to pick out those details
and you just need to wiggle it a little bit until you get it nicely in focus, nice and sharp
and we can either use our headphones, or we can use our timer to get that picture,
and there we go a fabulous little frosted strawberry, brilliant!
Ok so we've got this fantastic frosted
details of the strawberry, now if you think we've taken this as
far as we can
well we can actually do more with our macro photos. I'm going to
take this out of the holder and show you if by bringing
a photograph into Mixtures app, we open up
Mixtures and this is a tiny little trip I took with the
10 X macro earlier and you can see this is lovely soft background
now if you just, click on don't crop,
because we don't want to crop it, bring up the grunge textures here
and you could see that by just putting it through the library of different textures it changes
the background, it gives a little bit more of a paintly feel
you can kind of up that for a little bit but pressing the slider on the side
or change the color completely and the texture now I'm really happy with that I
think that looks fantastic.
Now this is brilliant because this is a high-resolution image
so you can print that out, you can print it out for yourself or maybe give it to family or friends,
and this is absolutely fantastic, you can photograph something personal like an inscription
or a child's toy, or a lock of hair, maybe a poem
and that will look fantastic, it makes it more personal
and really you know with the Mixtures app,
with the camera lenses, the possibilities are endless.
This powerful little portable lens opens up a whole new load of creative possibilities
so what are you waiting for, together with the apps, get out there
go and shoot and see what you can get! Thanks for joining us today,
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