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Shooting a macro insect shot

Shooting a macro insect shot

- I'm here once again today with Bob Sober, a giant bug photographer. Bob's actually normal sized, the photographs he makes are giant photos of bugs. Ones like this one. And this one. And this. And this. He's got a lot of them, they're all spectacularly beautiful. Bob, I want to talk today about what you're using hardware-wise. Now, if you've seen my macro course you should already be familiar with the idea of focus stacking, that's the process of shooting lots of images focused at different depths and then combining them so that you can get a macro shot with depth of field. Bob, you're working at such great magnification, you have to do a lot of stacking, and you've built a custom rig here to do it. Can you walk us through what you've got here? - Okay. Yes, I've got a... The cameras, I wanted the largest sensor I could get, and Canon did a nice job of developing this 50 megapixel sensor. - This is the 5DSr. - 5DSr, and then the 65 millimeter macro, 1 to 5x. - Also Canon. - Also…

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