Looking to add some photo equipment to your photo bag, check the Black Friday deals at Hunt's Photo

Hunt's Photo & Video Photography Retailer

January 2nd, sign up for my new online Flower Photography Club. For more info about this new club, click the link below.

FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

If you live in an area where there are Beech trees, you will find they are one of the rare trees that will hold onto their leaves throughout the winter months.  When subject matter is limited in the wintertime, the leaves on the beech trees offers opportunities for some nice images. The snow makes for a nice white background.

January 2nd, sign up for my new online Flower Photography Club. For more info about this new club, click the link below.

FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

For you photographers that use your phones, check out the new Platypod Mag Deluxe Set | Premium Magnetic Phone Mount and Charger. 

Platypod® Mag Deluxe Set

only $59.00

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Platypod Mag Deluxe Set | Premium Magnetic Phone Mount and Charger Explained

When I ask macro photographers what they are struggling with, the answer is always depth of field and not understanding the f/stops and how they affect the focus. You will hear photographers say that you have to focus stack in order to get more depth of field, but not true and in this program, you will learn the easy methods to getting all the depth of you want without focus stacking.

Attend online through Zoom.

November 22nd, 2025

12pm eastern standard time

$19.95

This program is not being recorded, and there are no refunds if you can't make it. 

To sign up, CLICK HERE

For most of my years shooting macro and close-up photography I have mainly used my Tamron 90mm lens. 

A few years ago, I started using the new zoom lenses from Tamron, the 18-270, 16-300, 18-400, and the 18-300 on my mirrorless camera. 

The other change in the last couple years are the larger megapixels on my latest cameras.  At 26 megapixels I can do some small crops and still get a good quality image. 

My new way of shooting is I don't have to worry about perfectly framing my subject and then just crop out the subject in post processing.

As you can see in this image, I just framed a large area with my zoom lens and crop in post.

When I get home, I download the image and just crop out what I want. Add an artistic filter for the background in Smart Photo Editor and done.

January 2nd, sign up for my new online Flower Photography Club. For more info about this new club, click the link below.

FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer