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Close-Up and Macro: A Photographer's Guide 2nd Edition
This is a comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to taking stunning close-up photographs in the natural world.In this authoritative book, Robert Thompson shares his considerable expertise in both photography and naturalism to impart everything you need to know about taking impeccable macro photographs.From a thorough survey of the equipment required
for both film and digital users, to detailed explanation of the techniques required for photographing all the most popular close-up subjects, including: flowers, fungi, insects, patterns and abstracts in nature. This sumptuously illustrated and highly practical book is the definitive guide to macro photography.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
- 1 Photographic Hardware Choosing a camera system
- Digital capture
- Useful features
- Tripods
- Film
- Exposure
- Lenses
- Extension tubes
- Teleconverters
- Magnification
- Focusing rails
- Depth of field
- Mirror lock-up
- Filters
- Useful accessories and equipment field kit
- Working with flash
- 2 Putting It Into Practice Composition and design
- Backgrounds
- Achieving consistency
- Finding subjects
- Learning from others
- Travelling abroad
- Photographing flowers
- Photographing insects
- Photographing fungi and lichens
- Patterns and abstracts
- Photographing in the garden
- Photographing aquatic life
- 3 Photographing The Seasons Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
- Useful Contacts and Websites
- Suggested Reading
- Index.
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