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May 04, 2020

Photographing Reflective Jewelry

May 04, 2020/ Allan Walls
Photographing Reflective Jewelry

Photographing highly reflective surfaces, especially in jewelry, is not easy. I make it look even harder!

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Indoor photography, Tips & Tricks, Best practices
jewelry, reflective, precious stones, opal photography
April 25, 2020

Build your own insect collecting net

April 25, 2020/ Allan Walls
Build your own insect collecting net

Learning to sew from an old guy who doesn’t know how to do it - what could go wrong?!

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April 25, 2020/ Allan Walls/ Comment
Beginner, DIY projects, Insects, Just for fun, Salvaged equipment, Tips & Tricks
insect net, catching insects, DIY, sewing, net, netting, sweep net
April 20, 2020

The guy with a butterfly net...

April 20, 2020/ Allan Walls
The guy with a butterfly net...

Catching, sorting, and shooting REALLY tiny insects - the movie.

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April 20, 2020/ Allan Walls/ 4 Comments
Beginner, Best practices, Equipment, Insects, Macro photography, Tips & Tricks
insect prep, preparing insects, catching, storing, bug, catching bugs, net, alcohol, washing, cleaning, container, microscope, fresh insects
April 17, 2020

Back to Macro - My studio workflow

April 17, 2020/ Allan Walls
Back to Macro - My studio workflow

Join me as I run through my entire focus stacking workflow - start to finish.

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Camera settings, Indoor photography, Insects, Macro photography, Technical advice, Tips & Tricks
macro, focus stacking, worklow, microscope objectives, insects, leaf hopper, backlighting, Stackshot, Cognisys, macro flash, focusing rail
March 31, 2020

Mounting and Cleaning Tiny Insects for Macro Photography

March 31, 2020/ Allan Walls
Mounting and Cleaning Tiny Insects for Macro Photography

A detailed look into the process of mounting, cleaning, and posing the tiniest of insects for macro photography.

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March 31, 2020/ Allan Walls/ 2 Comments
Beginner, Best practices, Insects, Macro photography, Tips & Tricks
cleaning, dirt, sand, washing, insect prep, ultrasonic, ultrasonic bath, detergent
March 28, 2020

Zerene Stacker - My Workflow

March 28, 2020/ Allan Walls
Zerene Stacker - My Workflow

Learn how to process your focus stacked images using Zerene Stacker.

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March 28, 2020/ Allan Walls/ 2 Comments
Best practices, Insects, Macro photography, Technical advice, Tips & Tricks
Zerene Stacker, focus stacking, extreme macro, macro editing
March 25, 2020

Extreme Macro Lighting Tricks

March 25, 2020/ Allan Walls
Extreme Macro Lighting Tricks

Learn how to light your extreme macro projects perfectly every time!

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March 25, 2020/ Allan Walls/ 1 Comment
Advanced, Best practices, Extreme macro, Lighting, Macro Lighting, Macro photography, Technical advice, Tips & Tricks
macro lighting, lighting, extreme, speedlight, flash, ant, extreme macro lighting, light cage
March 11, 2020

Photoshop Foolishness & Juggling

March 11, 2020/ Allan Walls
Photoshop Foolishness & Juggling

Photography for non-jugglers - fun with Photoshop!

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Editing, General photography, Indoor photography, Just for fun, Tips & Tricks
compositing, Photoshop, camera, juggling
March 08, 2020

Extreme Magnification Macro Photography

March 08, 2020/ Allan Walls
Extreme Magnification Macro Photography

High magnification begins with a microscope objective…

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March 08, 2020/ Allan Walls/ 8 Comments
Advanced, Best practices, Equipment, Extreme macro, Macro photography, Product review, Technical advice, Tips & Tricks
extreme, macro, microscope, objectives, infinity, finite, AmScope, objective, extension tubes, adapters, magnification, Nikon
June 06, 2019

Macro photography lighting

June 06, 2019/ Allan Walls
Macro photography lighting

It’s a video! Watch it!

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June 06, 2019/ Allan Walls/ 2 Comments
Technical advice, Tips & Tricks
macro photography, macro flash
April 15, 2019

Another reason to love Photoshop CC

April 15, 2019/ Allan Walls
Another reason to love Photoshop CC

I love Photoshop! Here is one more reason why…

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April 15, 2019/ Allan Walls/ Comment
Technical advice, Tips & Tricks
Flier, Flier design, Graphic design, Photoshop, Lightroom, Editing
November 05, 2018

Playing with light - rainy day photographs

November 05, 2018/ Allan Walls
Playing with light - rainy day photographs

This is what I came up with when I went looking for stuff to photograph around the house on a rainy day.

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Indoor photography, Tips & Tricks
Indoor photography, glass photography, Lighting techniques, Soap bubbles, colored pencils, Perfumers
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