From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups
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Shooting a macro bug shot indoors
From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups
Shooting a macro bug shot indoors
When you're outdoors looking for things to photograph, with any luck, you'll come across something really cool like this little beetle that we've got here. This little beetle that I'm really hoping right about now, isn't poisonous or man eating. Well, anyway, he's pretty cool looking so I want to get some pictures of him. I have this fabulous set that I built indoors here. And I'm going to use that as my backdrop for photographing this little beetle. So let's just get him into place. I'll take my temporary rock, my placeholder rock, out of the way, and see if I can get him to cooperate here. Come on little fella. Here we go. Awesome, Okay. So our beetle's in place. Let's get some shots. Let me see if I can just get something the way I've got it set up before he goes too far. Position him right towards the light there. Cool. So we're off to a good start here. Now a couple of things that I want to talk about with the setup here. Remember I positioned the rocks on here so I could…
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