iPhone Macro Photography Trick with Kara
Macro photography has a way of revealing an entirely different world, and one of the most fascinating techniques is photographing images refracted inside tiny water droplets. It might look like a complicated studio setup, but it's surprisingly simple to recreate at home.
In this episode of Platypod TV, Kara demonstrates how to turn ordinary water droplets into miniature lenses using nothing more than a sheet of plexiglass, an iPad, a few household items, and some cleverly chosen smartphone accessories.
Using the Reeflex 75mm Macro Lens together with the Reeflex Camera App, Kara shows why manual focus is essential for this type of photography, allowing you to capture incredibly sharp images that would be difficult to achieve with automatic settings alone.
You'll also discover how adding a little glycerin to water creates larger, longer-lasting droplets, giving you more time to perfect your composition. By simply changing the image displayed on the iPad beneath the glass, you can create an endless variety of colourful and creative refracted photographs.
Of course, precision is everything in macro photography. That's where Platypod comes in. A stable smartphone mount makes it far easier to position your camera exactly where it needs to be and maintain critical focus while working at such high magnifications.
Whether you're completely new to macro photography or looking for your next creative smartphone photography project, this is a fun technique that delivers eye-catching results with minimal equipment.
In this video you'll learn:
- How water droplets act as tiny magnifying lenses
- How to build the entire setup at home
- Why an iPad makes the perfect interchangeable background
- How manual focus improves macro photography
- How water and glycerin create better droplets
- How Platypod gear helps keep your iPhone perfectly stable
- How changing the background image creates completely different photographs
Watch the video below, then have a go yourself. You might be amazed at the incredible macro world hiding inside a single drop of water!
