Macro photography (or
photomacrography or
macrography, and sometimes
macrophotography), is extreme
close-up photography, usually of very small subjects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size (though
macrophotography technically refers to the art of making very large photographs). By some definitions, a macro photograph is one in which the size of the subject on the
negative or
image sensor is life size or greater. However, in other uses it refers to a finished photograph of a subject at greater than life size.