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Shooting a handheld macro focus stack

Shooting a handheld macro focus stack

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Shooting a handheld macro focus stack

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- This week on the Practicing Photographer, I'm going to take some macro shots of some old wilted flowers. They're actually really cool looking. At first I thought, "Well, these flowers are a little shot," but they're decaying in a really nice way. So, I have here a macro lens. This is a Canon 5D with a 100 millimeter 2.8 macro. What makes this a macro lens is that I can focus when I'm very close to my subject. Every lens has a minimum focusing distance. A non-macro lens, I would have to be back here. I can't get very close to my subject. This is going to let me get in and take what is a one-to-one photo, meaning the actual size of the object will be the actual size of the image that's projected onto the sensor. The problem with doing this is that macro lenses, when I'm in this close, my depth of field is going to go very, very shallow. I'm set right now at F5.6, let me even go to something bigger here. I'm going to…

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