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Shooting macro water droplets

Shooting macro water droplets - Photoshop Tutorial

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Shooting macro water droplets

A lot of people think that when the weather turns bad, it's time to put your camera away and go inside. But actually, with macro shooting, just after a rain, or what we've got here, heavy fog is a great time to go outside, because everything is covered with water droplets. And, water droplets can be really cool looking. When you get up close, they refract light, they add extra texture to an image, and they really create a lot of interesting specular highlights, and things. Now, we're just out in the parking lot. We haven't had to go more than 30 yards from the front door. It's great. There's this whole wet, soggy macro environment out here that I can just start playing around in. So, where do I start? Well, my eye was immediately drawn to, "Okay, there are some nice flowers here. I'll start with those." But there is also a lot of stuff you can just do with leaves. One thing that's nice about dew and rain is any spider webs that are out here are going to get covered and lit up. So, I'm…

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