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Taking closeup photos of small things requires you to get close and shoot at odd and uncomfortable angles. This is where a camera with articulating screen really shines and shooting macro photography with a flip-out screen is heavenly compared to crawling around on your knees.

Another benefit is that you can be much more discrete when shooting macro at arms length and approach small bugs and animals easier than with a camera where also you have to get in close to the action. Small bugs scare easily.


Flowers are a favorite closeup. This is an image I took one summer while I was experimenting shooting the underside of flowers. This is the kind of closeup photo that is impossible to compose when you also have to fit your head under the flower. Try shooting from unusual angles and you will see how your photos improve with better impact and unusual content. I like this image where the really soft colors of the petals clash with the hairy stem.

My camera of choice for these kinds of shots is the Nikon P7700 or the Canon G1x which has a larger sensor but which you need to attach a closeup lens to get a adequate magnification. (see camera list).
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Guess what: taking portraits and street shots with a camera to your face is killing most of your shots. As soon as you raise a camera to your eye people instinctively react and pose - or try to pose. A bad pose will always ruin a shot. When you shoot street photography, travel and portraits with a vari-angle camera you immediately notice how much better the shopts look.

There are 2 reasons for this: 1) the subject is more relaxed when they can actually see your face.. 2) a lower perspective. shooting with a articulating screen allows you to take more waist-level shots which makes the person you are shooting look bigger.

When doing travel photography, a flip screen camera allows you to be much more inconspicuous and discretely compose your shots, getting better travel photos. Credit: procrastinator from morguefile.com

Interchangeable lens cameras without viewfinder mirrors can be made smaller and lighter than normal cameras. The four thirds systems are an example with Panasonic and Olympus making several models.

Further information see my lens about Samsung NX20

For the highest image quality you want a system with APS-C sized sensors such as the Sony NEX series or Samsung NX.