Digital Photography

Macro is for taking closeup pictures of small objects. This setting will render very high detail on your subject. This is a great setting for flowers and insects. It will open the aperture so that only the subject is in focus which will blur the background. This keeps the subject the only focus of your photo.

Take a look at the picture of the leaf. Notice that the large water droplet is in focus but by the time you get to the edges of the leaf it starts getting blurry? That is what the Macro setting does - it will only focus on a small portion of the subject. For reference, this leaf is only about 1 inch long and less than 1/2 an inch wide.

Try it out. Go find some small things to photograph and see what they look like when you use this setting.