


But that need is magnified, literally, when you’re changing your perspective to work on the very small level of macro photography - shooting bugs and other small items that live in a world apart from most photos you’ll shoot. “It’s an alien world when you get into the macro level.”Īsking yourself these questions and thinking through the logistics are skills you want to build as a budding photographer. Are you shooting with a prime lens or from a distance with a telescopic lens? Or is this a live event, and do you need to come prepared to use a few lenses? Who’s your subject, and where are you shooting them? What’s the lighting like, and how might that affect the shot? Are you shooting from above or below? Is the subject on the move, or are you moving as you find the right angle on a stationary landscape? And then you can get into the gear-related questions. Photography is always a matter of perspective.
