August 2009

Lensbaby: Make Friends with the Wind

Every macro photographer I know dreads wind more than almost anything else. Even low or poor light can be easier to work around than a gusty day when trying to take flower portraits.... That's because traditional macro photography normally calls for very small apertures to get the entire image in focus, resulting in dreadfully slow shutter speeds in many cases. I was faced with just such a day on a shoot recently.

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