Looking At The Small Picture
Photo Credit: davescunningplan
After obtaining my first ever DSLR camera, I developed an interest in taking really close-up pictures of things like flowers, insects and small inaimate objects. In the photography circle, this technique is called macro photography.
I’m not going to talk about the technical details and my skills (or rather, the lack of it) in macro photography. I’d just like to share how taking photos of small objects changed my perspective of objects around me.
The most obvious change that I noticed is that I’m spending more time looking at small objects that I previously wouldn’t look at for more than three seconds. I tend to imagine framing the object and composing it on a virtual picture in my mind.
Small and seemingly insignificant things do in fact have an aspect of beauty to it. You just have to focus on it a little bit more. What’s 20 to 30 seconds compared to the new insight gained on the object?
This observation is not only limited to photography, but can be implemented in life as well. For so long the phrase “look at the big picture” has been hammered into our mind that we often overlook the details… sometimes expensively.
