For march-macro, I started reading Peterson's book on the plane tonight and learned there is a difference between macro and closeup that relates to whether the focal object is 1:1 or 1X. I'm not quite sure what that means yet, and am sort of too tired to figure it out tonight before posting. I'm fairly certain this would be considered a closeup but not a macro. Anyone who does understand, is there a good source for a simple explanation?
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There seems to be a few ways of looking at it! 1:1 is the obvious one but it seems many accept up to 1:4. Basically if you take a photo of an object that is 5mm long and it appears 5mm long on your sensor, It's one to one. A crop sensor is roughly 20mm x 13mm approx.....I think. My 2c is not to worry about details and keep knocking out lovely images like this!
My understanding of true macro images is that the image on a 35mm negative is the same size or larger than its real size. I'm not really sure how it equates to digital photography. Great image anyway :)
Like you, I have been trying to establish the difference between macro and closeup. Still haven't seen an explanation that helps me! But, I suppose it doesn't matter too much, really! Great shot!
I often wonder about this myself. I go with if you can see the details on something close up much more on a photo than you can see with the naked eye, then its macro. but this is my own definition, not the real one... probably should look it up like you :-) nice shot anyway, very pretty
I like your photo, but we need a picture of you on your belly taking this picture!