Going Macro in Your Wall Art

Decorating your home with your own photographic inspirations turned into canvas prints as wall art is an increasingly popular way to give your home’s interior design a personal look and feel. Canvas art brings color, texture, and personality to your walls in ways that store-bought art simply can’t. But that doesn’t mean all of your photo prints have to be super personal or even typical. Family portraits, pets, and vacation shots can make beautiful art, but there are other ways to explore the world of photography and images that the everyday offers up.

One strategy for amateur photographers and people looking for striking photos on the wall that’s gaining prominence is Macro Photography.

Macro Photography

Macro photography is simply a term that means getting extremely up close. For example, let’s say you have some beautiful roses growing in your garden. You could, of course, simply take a nicely composed photo of the roses and rely on the gorgeous colors to make your print sing – and that would work. But if you get in close – extremely close, to a point where you can see the veins in the rose’s stems, a point where the thorns becomes massive, otherworldly objects, a point where everything becomes oversize and abstract, the rose turns into something else entirely, something somehow more powerful and more interesting that the thing itself.

Macro Wall Art Tips

Macro photography can take a little getting used to, because it requires a whole new way of looking at the world. But this is also one of its greatest positives – which it gets us to look at the world in a whole new way. In a very real sense we all see without seeing – take those roses. Can you visualize what they really look like, up close? The details? Pursuing macro photography will teach you to look at things that closely.

Tip: The first tip for pursuing Macro Photography for your photo printing and art gallery is to open your mind to the simple principle that Macro means anything can be beautiful. Trash. Dirt. Bugs. Amazing things tend to happen when you get up close and personal with objects and creatures, because there are patterns and surprising textures and colors hidden away in the finest details of just about anything. If you search for Macro photography online, for example, you’ll be stunned to discover the true subjects of some of the most interesting examples.

Tip: While there are plenty of examples of stunning macro photos of living things in motion or simply observed up close, these can be extra challenging because all the creatures great and small around us tend to be uncooperative when we try to photograph them, and Macro photography tends to require a steady hand and some patience. Stay away from flying bugs, animals, and other living things that move quickly. Slow-crawling bugs might work out. The point is, when just getting going, it’s a good idea to stick to stationary things like plants, patterns, wood grains, and objects – things that will stay in place while you play around and see what works. In fact, patterns, up close and abstracted, make stunning wall art.

Macro photography can transform your wall decor into something at once unique and familiar. Play around with these tips and see what you can come up with – and when you’re ready, send us your most interesting work and we’ll handle the canvas printing part.