For pros and advanced amateur shooters, Kodak’s Ektar 100 film is an ideal for nature, travel, fashion and architectural photography where the emphasis is on detail and color.

The classic definition of macro photography is that when an image projected onto the film plane or digital sensor it’s the same size as the subject. For a full-frame (24x36mm) sensor camera you should be able to produce life-size magnification and focus on an area as small as 24×36mm at a 1:1 ratio.

The following tips are offered in hopes of giving you a creative kick and help you get out of a rut to not only make some great car photographs but have fun while doing it.

A few years ago Mary and I attended an outing with a group of photographers who were shooting in Bryce Canyon and other parts of Utah. After one day’s shoots one of the attendees asked, “why are you photographing trees?

I once received an e-mail from a Shutterbug reader asking “why do you do infrared photography, when regular photography is already so hard?” The short answer is because it’s fun. And yes, because it captures light that’s invisible to your eyes so it can be challenging but so can any genre in photography that you haven’t tried before.