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Thomas Shahan Shares His Methods In Macro Photography

Nov 22, 2014 by Tiffany Mueller 6 Comments

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Methods In Macro Photography
A few days ago we shared some macro shots of spiders being reflected in drops of dew which were simply stunning. They definitely inspired me to pull out my extension tubes and reverse ring and get back into macro. If they inspired you to dabble, too, macro photography master, Thomas Shahan, just posted a new tutorial on the subject. There’s a lot of good advice for beginners in there, but more experienced photographers can find a few gems in the clip as well.

The video is an mostly an eight minute long slideshow of Shahan’s brilliant macro photos with some behind the scenes shots in there for good measure. Shahan narrates the clip by explaining his setup, process, and dishes out a ton of great pointers for levels of photographers. Be sure to look for the variety of DIY light modifiers he uses in some of the images. He briefly talks about how he made one of them with a paper towel and some sheets of plastic. He’s able to get some great shots using just that and the pop up flash on his Pentax DSLR. 

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Shahan using his DIY light modifier with a pop up flash.

There’s also video clips interspersed throughout the tutorial, which feature Shahan explaining how to deal with things like wind blowing everything around and what to do with your macro shots once you get to post production. Speaking of processing, Shahan walks us through his theory on processing images to which he insists, “In short, less is more.”

Take a look at the video below, then grab your macro setup and get some practice in over the weekend!

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Tiffany Mueller is a photographer based in Hawi, Hawaii. You can follow her Twitter here and her personal life here.

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