SCRIPT Video and mobile phone cameras can shoot close-up.
But for a DSL camera you’ll need a micro lens. They’re available in different lengths. We’ll use the two most common, the 60mm and 105mm. Both are razor sharp.
Here is the 105mm micro lens. It also is an excellent portrait lens. It creates a telephoto portrait type affect even just two feet from the subject.
This is the 60mm lens shot at the same distance but the angle is twice as wide.
Include micro close-ups with your vacation and story-telling pictures. It adds variety and no other media captures detail like a micro lens shot.
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PRACTICE Whether you have a micro lens for your camera or no this lesson help you learn the closeness range of your equipment.
Choose three subjects of different sizes as close as your camera and lens will allow.
Study your results. Write in 25-75 words your observations in your Progress Report.
