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Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

TomD<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done a LOT of studio type macro. If you want the easy way to do macro shots its with a lighting setup. I\u2019ll attach a shot of my light box setup below. BTW: Important that the lights be 5000 kelvin color temp (daylight).<\/p>\n

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how to 1.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Light box (above). That\u2019s my old Sony A850 on the tripod. I build the light holding framework around the box with PVC tubing. I\u2019ll also post a shot of what I was mostly doing.<\/p>\n

A Mexican coin shot using the light box. One reason straight on lighting alone won\u2019t work is that it won\u2019t create the shadowing that defines the shot.<\/p>\n

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Don Quijote.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Speaking of cameras, I\u2019m about to acquire another body. It\u2019s been about 6, maybe more, years since I gave my ASPC Sony a6300 to my wife and went entirely to full frame, full sized cameras. When it comes to photographic quality, you can\u2019t beat them, but they lack in one really important respect: full frame, full sized cameras are too big and too expensive to carry constantly. I kept the A6300 with a Zeiss 16-70 f4 with me almost all the time. It\u2019s small enough to fit in a pocket or console and be available. It wasn\u2019t exactly cheap but but if it was lost, stolen or broken, it wouldn\u2019t be like the $5K-$6K hit for one of my full frame bodies + a Sony GM series lens. And, frankly, you would would have to look very hard to tell the difference between most shots from my 6000 series cameras and the full frame cameras.<\/p>\n

A significant portion of my favorite shots have been serendipitous.<\/p>\n

The wife is attached to the 6300 so I\u2019m about to get a newer A6600 for less that a thousand and I already have the big investment, the lens selection in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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