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How to use glycerin as a photography tool

How to use glycerin as a photography tool

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

How to use glycerin as a photography tool

- If you like to shoot flower pictures, rather macro or not, you probably already discovered that flowers with water beaded up on them have just a really nice extra dramatic look. So maybe you've gone outside early in the morning trying to catch the dew covered flowers. If you have, you've probably already encountered that getting up really early in the morning is a drag, but also that it's hard to find flowers that are covered with dew sometimes, it's hard to find ones covered with dew, and the dew doesn't last very long, and it collects in weird places, it's just a hassle. So maybe you've come inside with some flowers and spritzed them with water. That can be a nice workaround, and you don't have to get up so early, but the water doesn't stay where you want. There's a very easy fix for that, and that is to go to the drug store and buy a bottle of glycerin. If you mix some glycerin with water, one part glycerin to three parts water, and stick it in a spray bottle, you can then spritz…

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