Micro photography

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Venture into the tiny details of the natural world with our gallery of super-macro photography, which reveals unseen textures and patterns.

A high energy beam scanner, called a scanning electron micrograph, was used to capture this image, which shows the surface of a human tongue. The protruding objects, called filiform papillae, can sense pressure. The flaky appearance of the papillae results from the fact that they are constantly shedding their skin to increase sensitivity. Source: Science Photo/Photo Researchers

When taking macro pictures, or pictures of fairly small objects in general, a common problem is to get the lightning right. More even lightning can be achieved by using a "soft box", essentially a contraption that spreads light from one (or a few) light sources over a larger area. A very cheap and simple soft box is a transparent bucket, like this one: Preferably, it should have as neutral density as possible. If it has some colour tint, the images will get the wrong white balance. It is of…

california-based photographer alison pollack documents the miniature dwellers of the forest — myxomycetes or slime molds and miniature fungi.