Explore the Art of Macro Photography: A Tutorial Evening with our own Paul Newson on Wednesday 12th November 2025 at 7.30 pm

Introduction

• Overview of the tutorial evening focused on macro photography and the History of “Doing it All in Camera” as a Badge of Honour. 

  
  

Understanding Macro Photography

• Definition and significance of macro photography.

  
  

Creative Approaches to Macro Photography

• Exploring subjects: Insects and everyday objects.

• The style that Brooke Shaden uses in her online courses, ie take a completed image with all the layers, hide all but one of them, then show the technique on a new demo layer, then once people understand the process, hide the demo layer, show the finished layer, then start a new demo layer for the next technique. 

• The role of backgrounds: Creating contrast and context.

  
  

Post-Processing Techniques

• Importance of editing in macro photography.

• Recommended software: Lightroom and Photoshop for enhancing details.

• Key editing techniques: Cropping, sharpening, and colour correction.

After the break,

The presentation is called The History of “Doing it All in Camera” as a Badge of Honour, and covers not only the "doing it all in camera" boasts but the history of how photographers have tried to show themselves as more authentic than those others for the better part of two centuries since Louis Daguerre came up with his process for capturing light.

Doing it all in camera