It was when I was in high school that I first learned about microeconomics, which — if I remember it correctly — is the study of the individual parts of the economy.

Then we had moved on to macroeconomics where we were taught about the whole economic systems — a look at how the economics principles worked at the national level, said my teacher then.

I was therefore a bit confused when later in my life I come to the term “macro” in relation to photography — where a photographer zooms in to take a close-up photos of things.

The macroeconomics of macro photography

I remember how I had pondered this question: shouldn’t this be called “micro photography” instead of macro?

Macro, as I understood the term then — no thanks to my macroeconomics teacher — was about a view of the larger scenario, hence, macro photography should not be about closing in on things with camera lens, I still remember myself pondering the issue.

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