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Macro Photography on a Budget: What Extension Rings, Tiny Lights, and One Very Uncooperative Camera Taught Me
I’ve spent most of my creative life working at the pixel level, so you’d think “getting closer to the subject” would be something I’d have figured out by now. But there’s a difference between zooming into a layer in Photoshop and actually photographing something at 1:1 magnification in the real world. One requires pressing a plus key. The other, apparently, requires firmware updates in a muddy forest. In Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, landscape photographer Thomas Heaton documents his first serious attempt at macro photography with brutal honesty, and what makes it worth watching is precisely that it doesn’t go smoothly.