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Working with sliders for macro

Working with sliders for macro - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working with sliders for macro

If you've been following along doing any macro shooting of your own, then you should already have discovered that camera and subject placement is critical when you're building a composition. Now, this is true with any kind of photographic composition. But at the macro scale, it gets down to millimeters of placement of both your camera and your subject. You've seen how I have my geared head here for rotating, and panning, and tilting the camera. But as I've been trying to get things positioned, I've been sliding my subject back and forth. If I'm needing to get something in focus, I could, of course, move the tripod back and forth, but making a fine motion of this whole tripod is really tricky. Fortunately, there's another piece of gear you can employ to help you with that, and that's a slider. This is a geared rail that I can mount my camera on. And, by turning these knobs, I can slide it in different directions. So, this knob slides it back and forth this way. This knob slides it back…

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