January 31 – Shiv Verma – Macro/Close-up and Image Stacking Photography

Macro photography lets you explore and create exciting photographs of a whole new and intimate world. Zeroing-in to create an interesting abstract or just filling the frame with a tiny flower, insect or a jewel. This program will address the challenges you’ll face with Macro Photography and the methods and tools used to overcome those challenges. We will deal with the lighting and equipment, as well as several techniques to get better images. This includes select-ing the appropriate equipment; lighting and stacking. You will understand the importance of Depth-of-Field as it affects Macro Photos. You will learn how to create high magnification images using macro lenses, tubes, and diop-ters. In addition, you will learn how to create one completely focused image from sever-al partially focused images. This focus stacking technique is Ideal for macro-photography when the sharpness of the entire subject is critical.

January 31 Shiv Verma, FPSA, MNEC is a published author, photographer, educator and technolo-gist. He is a Panasonic Lumix Global Ambassador, Wacom Pro-Artist and an X-Rite Coloratti. He has been photographing for over 50 years and has evolved his photog-raphy to express his intense devotion to wildlife and nature. Over the years has earned numerous awards and recognition both nationally and internationally. Shiv devotes a great deal of his time formally reviewing photography related products, to education in digital photography and is a speaker and competition judge. He conducts photo tours and workshops worldwide and typically has one tour a month. 

Shiv’s book Time-Lapse Imagery was published in February 2014. 

He belongs to multiple photographic clubs and associations and serves as Vice Presi-dent of the New England Camera Club Council. He is the immediate past Vice President of Learning and Technology of the Photographic Society of America. He is a member of the Professional Photographers Association of America; past Board Member, General Chairman of the PSA International and Chairman of Nature Division, PSA (Photograph-ic Society of America). In addition, he is a member of the North American Nature Pho-tographers Association (NANPA), Greater Lynn Photographic Association and the Mas-sachusetts Camera Naturalists. 

Shiv was honored as a Fellow of the Photographic Society of America in 2020, and as an Associate of the Photographic Society of America in 2013. He was elected a Master Member of the New England Camera Club Council in 2008. 

“My aim as a photographer is to arrest motion, the very life in our world and to express my interpretation of what I see around me. My photography is an exploration allowing me to engage more deeply with my subjects, the places and time where each image captured is a finite moment, externalized.”