Compositional Trick #3: Macro

The Macro function on a camera allows the photographer to get super close to the object and show little things on the object that we would never be able to see with the naked eye, such as textures and junk, without zooming in. Depth of field is the portion of the picture that appears in a sharp image. The lens can precisley focus one part of the picture, while the other part appears blurry. To have a deep depth of field is to have the backround of the picture in a better focus than the main object, and to have a shallow DOF is to have the focal point extremley visable and the backround blurry. Macro would be the compositional trick of choice when wanting to get super close to an object and getting close details of the object that would not be visable to the human eye. I would have to say that my favorite picture using the macro function was the picture on the top. I took the picture of my friend Amanda's hair like randomly. I think that the texture of her hair and the different colors of her hair made that picture totally awesome.