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  • Tips to Get the Most Out of Your iPhone’s Macro Photo Feature

    Tips to Get the Most Out of Your iPhone’s Macro Photo Feature

    Since releasing the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max in September, I’ve not shut up about the exceptional quality of the cameras. Sometimes, however, they’re too smart and feel like they require pre-existing photography skills to get the most out of them. But fear not, because here’s a little guide (with some help from kick-ass…


  • Can You Guess What The Objects In These Closeup Photos Are?

    Can You Guess What The Objects In These Closeup Photos Are?

    Video: A peeled orange and a red capsicum. That’s what I thought a pencil and a Coke bottle cap were when I saw them in macro. That’s because when you stare at something from up close, even if it’s something you see everyday, you lose your sense of familiarity with it. The dash of colour…


  • Gorgeous Video Shows Crystals Forming From Up Close

    Gorgeous Video Shows Crystals Forming From Up Close

    Video: Chemistry sure is a pretty science, especially in macro. Just check out the stunning crystallisation process of things like potassium chromate, sodium chloride and ammonium chloride. Each one is totally unique and packs its own flair — you don’t know how it’s going to end up until it’s finished. The colours, the structure, the…


  • The Eyes Of Animals Look A Lot Like Alien Worlds

    The Eyes Of Animals Look A Lot Like Alien Worlds

    Continuing his fantastic series of macro shots of the eyes of animals, here is Suren Manvelyan’s Animal Eyes 3. The close up shots of the fish and reptiles and other animals in this series look positively alien when seen up close. I thought they were artist’s rendering of deep space planets from a sci-fi movie.