From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups

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Getting close with an indoor flower setup

Getting close with an indoor flower setup

From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups

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Getting close with an indoor flower setup

Usually, if you are shooting flowers or plants or any kind of nature, you are probably going to be outside. But sometimes, outside isn't really compatible with shooting. Maybe, there is rain or a lot of wind and it's kind of hard to talk of flower and standing still in the wind. So, sometimes it's easier to just brings the outdoors in, where you have complete and total control. And that's what we have done here. So, what I've got is a very simple set up. First of all, a couple of cut flowers, and you'll see that I'm holding them up with this fantastic little stand here. Now this is something off of Amazon for less than $10. It's just a little model or hobbyist tool kit here. It's just got a couple of alligator clips, comes with a magnifying glass as well if you need it, and you can use this to position objects and hold them wherever you like. And it's really easy to rotate these around in position. In this case your flowers exactly as your want them. So this is fantastic. It allows me…

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