Macro Portraits

A portrait by any other name or modifier is still a portrait

Russ Burden

Updated July 27, 2016

If I simply add the modifier of MACRO, it doesn’t change rules of composition, light, creativity, depth of field, etc

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Originally Published December 2, 2013

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