How to Photograph: Close-Ups in Nature

• Guide to macro-photography gear and techniques
• How to recognize and compose intimate natural scenes

Stunning small-scale images await the photographer with the eye and skill to capture them-images that exist virtually anywhere. Master photographers and veteran teachers of close-up photography Nancy Rotenberg and Michael Lustbader explain the equipment, techniques, and aesthetic principles needed to create personal masterpieces. Macro lenses, extension tubes, close-up flash techniques, lighting, exposure, composition-all are explained in lucid text and illustrated with dazzling color photos.

Stunning small-scale images await the photographer with the eye and skill to capture them-images that exist virtually anywhere. Master photographers and veteran teachers of close-up photography Nancy Rotenberg and Michael Lustbader explain the equipment, techniques, and aesthetic principles needed to create personal masterpieces. Macro lenses, extension tubes, close-up flash techniques, lighting, exposure, composition-all are explained in lucid text and illustrated with dazzling color photos.

Michael Lustbader's work has appeared in Audubon, National Geographic, and many other publications. Rotenberg and Lustbader operate Natural Tapestries, a stock agency, in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.