Thank you!

Thank you! Here's the link to the ebook, let me know if you still have problems. www.blurb.com/b/9993546-macro-and-close-up-photography-for-beginners?ebook=719498

Thank you for the kind words Trevor! Much love across the pond! Stay safe!

And you blew my mind with the 3rd hand idea. I can't believe I never thought of that, I have also worked with jewelry for a long time lol

If you CR channel, you could see how we can improve. So far I have shot everything with my cell phone and a jeweler's loop, and our lighting is a nightmare lol

Nina Kirienko Photography it depends on what you want. Photography is an art and what I like might not be what someone else wants. That’s the beauty of any art, it’s in the eye of the beholder and anything goes. Not everyone can afford thousands of dollars of equipment.

🤣It’s whatever you want to have in focus. What does that have to do with doing it cheaply or not. I can shot wide open with expensive gear too. You can use focus to draw the eye to something of interest or use it in an artful way which she is doing here. If everyone did everything the “right” way it would be boring real quick.

Shooting wide open gives the best control of depth of field when focus stacking. Sometimes you want **a good portion** but not all of your subject in focus, then have the focus drop away quickly. Shooting wide open and then focus stacking is the best way to achieve that specific effect.

Thanks Stephen! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Rose! That's use of Depth of Field to get that effect. :)

Hey Elisabeth! If I could only buy 1 light at the moment, it would definitely be the LED light by Neweer or a similar brand. They're portable and dimmable. I use mine almost daily. If you do buy upright lights, make sure the bulb is daylight balanced for a more natural look. I'm in the process of putting together an online macro/closeup tabletop training course and will go over inexpensive lighting anyone can do. Watch for the intro video I'll be posting soon. I shot a few objects yesterday using the Neweer light and a simple set up, you can see one of the results here: bonniemarquette.smugmug.com/Clients-Products-and-Services/i-3WtJWzZ/A

I just bought that very same thing last week!

Thank you. This is the best Teaching, instruction, price list I have encountered. Quick and to the point! No blabbing. No long introductory comments. Please do more Videos. You are awesome!!

Hi James. Sorry it took so long to reply. I'm not sure of the brand, there's no name on it and actually I very rarely use it. When I'm shooting food, I prefer to handhold. When I'm doing tabletop and experimenting with lights, then I'll use my tripod but the macro lens is so sensitive, just moving my tripod slightly will change my DoF depending on my F-stop. ;)