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FLASH TECHNIQUES FOR

MACRO AND CLOSE-UP PHOTOGRAPHY

A GUIDE FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

ROD AND ROBIN DEUTSCHMANN

Amherst Media ®

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All photographs by the authors unless otherwise noted.

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ISBN-13: 978-1-60895-290-8

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010940510

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CONTENTS

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

How It Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Focal Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Depth of Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

The Depth-of-Field Preview Button . . . . . . 22

Flash Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Camera Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Flash Sync Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

High-Speed Flash Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Camera Filters to Cut the Light. . . . . . . . . .31

The Message-Building Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

1. THE MAGIC OF MACRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

The Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Insight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

About the Gear (This is the Brilliant Part!) . . . .12

About Shooting in RAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Start with an Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

2. KEY TECHNIQUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Close-Up vs. Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Camera and Lens Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Choose the Camera Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Determine the Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Select the Focal Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Set the Depth of Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Flipping (or Reversing) a Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Extension Tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Bellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Face-to-Face Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

The Macro Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Close-Up Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

The Next Step: Adding Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Choose the Shutter Speed and ISO . . . . . . . 34

Consider Adding Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Shoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

3. THE GEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Start with What You Have, Build as You Grow . . 38

Telephoto Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Teleconverters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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