From lens focal lengths and fill-flash to portraits, macro or stunning landscapes there are techniques for everyone. Learn how to use metering, considering composition and shoot everything from ...

For my macro photography I use Sigma's 180mm f/3.5 DG Macro Lens. This focal length is ideal for the subjects I take as some tend to be very skittish and this gives me the working distance I require.

Ireneusz Irass Waledzik, 29, from Poland, uses macro photography to reveal the fascinating colours and shapes of tiny insects. He said: "I love macro photography, I spend a lot of time at it. The ...

An Indonesian photographer has captured a series of amazing macro pictures of tiny insects using a mobile phone camera. Andi Sriyadi took these spectacular macro images with just a Samsung Galaxy A5 ...

This is an extract from a book that aims to celebrate the natural world while unveiling the rich, often surprising, lives of insects — creatures so easily overlooked. At a time of devastating ...

These pictures by 'Bugman' Eddie Nurcombe show the faces of Britain's most colourful bugs - normally too small to see. Eddie captured this photograph of a cuckoo bee, using powerful macro lenses ...

Geraint Radford, from Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley, photographs bugs and plants in his garden. He uses social media to try to encourage more people to get into macro photography. He said: "Insects ...

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