Macro Photography
With the Canon G1X Mark II
(The Flower Edition)

Great macro photos with a point and shoot camera? Yes, you can! Here are a few sample images of macro photography with the Canon G1X Mark II.  I included a very short video clip of the G1X Mark II at a macro distance from this same flower in the photo below.

The lens design of the Powershot G1X Mark II includes the ability
to focus at only a distance of 2 inches form your subject.

I've been playing around with Nik software and found that the Detail Extractor filter does a great job with macro images.  I used that in all three of these macro images taken with the Mark II.

In the photo below I also used the Vignette-Blur filter in Nik's Color Efex Pro 4 to soften the edges of the composition, placing more emphasis on the smaller petals in the center of the image.

Close-ups like the one above are cropped from the original.  Because the Mark II has a 1.5 inch sensor, you can crop quite a bit of the original images and still not have significant degradation of the image, and preventing you from printing them as small pieces of artwork.

Sharpness is critical, both from focusing accurately as well as keeping the subject and camera perfectly still. I used the self-timer with all of these macro images and the Mark II.

I never use the pop-up flash on the G1x Mark II.  It's very useful in many situations, but definitely not for close-up photography.

Macro Photography With the Canon G1X Mark II - Video

Here is a HD video sample of macro photography with the Canon G1X Mark II.  The closest focusing distance with the lens, as is, on the Mark II is 5 cm, or about 2 inches. That's a nice short distance to get some great close-ups with a point and shoot camera, like the G1X Mark II.  

The shakiness is from the wind blowing and me bumping the tripod when I shot this short clip. Despite the wind noise from the little, built-in, condenser microphone, I like the quality of this HD video.

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