Shooting macro on a white background: simple yet very useful tricks

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Quite often we shoot macro, and even more often we shoot it on a white background. In most cases this means that at the end client will receive images of the subject on a pure, (0xFFFFFF) background. Such requirement leaves photographer with only one way (to make it easier on the post-production): shoot on as

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Focus stacking technique using Adobe Photoshop CS5

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While I working on a new articles from the shots we have done in 2011, I’d like to re-post the full article form my guest post for LearnMyShot.com (great educational source for beginners). The material is really interesting, and I want to have it on my blog as well.

This is how we use focus stacking

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Sexy boot: Cover shot for the catalog.

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This is what we shot for the catalog cover (the full catalog photo session are here and here), a close-up shot of one of the catalog boots. Customer wanted to show the boot on a cove and wanted to have the most rich, tasty and sexy (here I’ve run out of my English vocabulary :) look possible.

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Lens and lights for super macro photography: surgery on a shooting table

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Do you know what surgical forcep is? According to Wikipedia: “Forceps are used when fingers are too large to grasp small objects or when many objects need to be held at one time while the hands are used to perform a task.” In case if the object is a tiny piece of human body needed

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