Macro Hack for Photographing Your Blooms

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Posted by @greene on
Use a hand lens or jeweler's loupe to obtain extreme close-ups.

Shhh, don't tell anyone, but my eyesight is so bad that sometimes I use macro photos just to take a good look at things. Since my camera's macro feature stopped working for some unexplained reason, I had no way to get the extreme close-ups I needed. Then I remembered a little trick I learned from my son-in-law: Use a hand lens or jeweler's loupe to enlarge the area you need to photograph, then focus the camera on that!
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that does it by kylaluaz Sep 21, 2014 5:08 AM 8
Useful photography tip by dave Sep 19, 2014 8:41 AM 17
Now isn't that just the coolest thing since the invention of the wheel by flaflwrgrl Sep 19, 2014 8:31 AM 14

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