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IOS macro photography gear

IOS macro photography gear

- If you've seen my Foundations of Photography: Macro course, then you've seen me showing images like this, and this, and this. If you've watched that course, you've also seen that getting shots like that can involve very complex hardware, long setup times, lengthy shoots and a lot of post production. Now, what you didn't see in that course were images like this, or this, or this, images that are fine, technically, but that don't work as aesthetically, and it required the same complex setup and time as the good images, so, why would I bother with a complex setup for these images that turn out to be lousy compositions? Partly it's because of that weird thing where you don't always recognize a composition as bad until you see the final image, but more often than not, it's because pre-visualizing a marco image is really hard. It's hard to look from above at a small subject and see where a good composition is, or even recognize that a small subject might make a good composition. Greatly…

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