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Thank you! I'm certainly not an expert or authority on macro photography; I also mostly shoot people, which is going to be a different set of skills and challenges than object or insect macro...

Quite. Great "observation about the natural world"!

Many photographers look to follow rules to make a better image. Photographer Thomas Park discusses how you can unlock creative possibilities by breaking these rules instead.

In this article, photographer Thomas Park discusses some time-honored compositional rules for creating effective photographs, and explains why they are successful.

Working with flash is a different animal - the flash is so many orders of magnitude brighter than the ambient light that the light in the room almost doesn't make any difference at all. If you set...

Thanks for reading!

I definitely agree - I always start with the key light.

Regarding fill light, I sometimes find it useful to set the key light to establish the overall look then *turn it off*...