"see up close" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in descriptions or instructions to refer to observing something from a short distance or with great detail. Example: "It's important to see up close the intricate details of this painting in order to fully appreciate its beauty."
Investors could see, up close, the damaging impact on sales from the arrival of generic competition to its key asthma drug, Advair.
What's more, moviegoers won't have to wait to see, up close, the film's humans battling machines on giant screens: the movie is also being released for the first time simultaneously in Imax theaters in nine countries.
To spend time with this Queens family is to see, up close, how the growing disparities within immigrant homes are pulling their members in opposite directions and complicating efforts to plan a common future.
It is a post-modern book in that it concerns itself with surfaces... Tartt writes of the painter Fabritius that, "It's there in the light rinsed atmosphere, the brush strokes he permits us to see, up close, for exactly what they are - hand worked bristles visible...where paint is paint and yet also feather and bone".
The real story, in Kaus' dogged determination to bring to light the fact that journalists email each other, is that we can see, up close, the differences between threaded discussions on JournoList and Kausfiles up close.
Bad LBL wants to see, up close and personal, that our next president is exactly who she believes he is, and that the fallout will be exactly what she believes it will be.
Orgasmic mugging is not something you want to see up close.
I wanted to see up close how black the blacks were in order to decide what film stock to use.
Leaf, coming out of Washington State, had a rocket arm that scouts could not wait to see up close.
As caregivers, we see up close the consequences when the elderly can't afford the medicine they need.
