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Macro insect photography gear and setup

Macro insect photography gear and setup

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Macro insect photography gear and setup

- Alright, this week is for all of you extreme gear heads, you're gonna really like this. I'm here with Bob Sober. Bob takes really large pictures of insects. Some of the insects themselves are really large, but he takes these beautiful giant photos, lots of stacked macro stuff. And Bob, I've done a lot of stacked macro stuff and when I see your stuff I go wow, this is amazing, I don't have the foggiest idea how you could do this if you were using the gear that I'm using. So it's very interesting to come in here and find out you aren't, you've made your own gear. And very often in my experience when you go and look deeper into the work, extreme technical work of someone who's doing something very difficult it is because they've made their own gear. And so I wanted to talk some today about what you've constructed here and what problems you were trying to solve. You're doing your work on a macro stacking rig and for those of you who aren't clear on what that is take a look at my macro…

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