Canon Macro

Canon Macro Photography
How Close Can You Get?
When I was a teenager I read a Sci-Fi comic book story about the first astronauts to crash-land on Mars. No life there, no help possible‚ they died. The last frame of the comic showed an exaggerated perspective of an astronauts body lying on the sand of Mars with a tiny ultra-modern city partially crushed underneath him. Therewaslife on Mars‚ just on a micro scale that hadn't been noticed.
The point of this story? Do most of us see that vast world around us that lies in the very small?  I usually don't, as the broader landscape is my typical subject matter.
Macro-photography (or as some more accurately prefer micro-photography) is a very specialized field. Many years ago when I was a working pro (no, not that kind), I did some extensive close-up work for a TV series on flowers, but I found it tedious and difficult. I used bellows and had to calculate exposure factors, and flash use was even more complicated‚ in fact almost impossibly diff...