How to Make a Macro Lens for Your iPhone

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How to Make a Macro Lens for Your iPhone

Fun experiment macro shooting with your iPhone.

Ute Sonnenberg

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Step 1 of 3

Put the cup with water close to your photographic subject.

Step 2 of 3

Tap with your finger in the water to get small amounts of water on your finger. Turn your iPhone face down and put a water drop on the camera eye. Then turn quickly your iPhone face up.

Step 3 of 3

Now the water drop is on the camera eye, creating a lens. Keep the iPhone face up and get close to the flower. When outdoors be careful with the wind, it moves the water. Now practice snapping.

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Ute Sonnenberg

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A small cup with water

Find a subject like flowers

Get your iPhone

Huh? Instruction is for iPhone. Mic is near the speakers not the camera. Don't follow this instruction if you have a cheap phone. If you're afraid of leak, put a clear cling film inbetween the camera lens and the droplet

Xtian Sabs 5 months ago

Excelent

Lalo Fernandez 9 months ago

Thanks guys for your comments. Its only a water drop right on the camera lens, you are not putting the phone in the water or splash water on the PHONE. Its a drop on the lens and it sits there and is gone with one fast movement. But yes for those who might think water on or in the phone is all right, its not. One always needs to be careful with that. Don't put water in any openings, like Ken said in the mic.

Ute Sonnenberg (author) 9 months ago