Kaleidoscopes & Macro Photography

Macro photography is the art of taking close-up pictures to reveal details which can’t be seen with the naked eye. These images are highly focused and detailed and are often used for nature shots. In this project, students walked around the campus of Calvert to take macro photos of their own using the macro camera setting. They focused on interesting shapes and forms while paying close attention to color, lighting, and composition. After selecting their favorite photo, they used Photoshop to crop it even more and then rotated, flipped, and duplicated the cropped tile to form an abstracted kaleidoscope image. Below is a brief example of the process. Students took their original photograph and cropped a section that would add interesting shape, dimension and color to their kaleidoscope. Then, brought the cropped image into Photoshop, where they flipped, rotated and duplicated the image to create the desired result.