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Shooting with a wide-angle macro lens

Shooting with a wide-angle macro lens

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Shooting with a wide-angle macro lens

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- Last week on the Practicing Photographer you saw me open a new lens, a weird 15 millimeter wide angle macro lens, this one right here. You saw me go through some of the stuff that I think about and do when I'm dealing with a new piece of gear, specifically a new lens. Some care and concern issues that I had. And this week I wanna talk about what I do when I get a new lens by way of trying to understand it. After last week's segment, Heather, my producer came up and gave me a hard time for talking about how my lens was learning from me, and okay, maybe that wasn't the right phrase to use. What I mean is we have this idea that we create tools and then they serve us, but they don't, we learn things back from them. We change the way that we see with a lens, we change the way that we work based on our expectations of what a particular piece of gear can do. So before I go out and shoot with this lens I wanna have a better…

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