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if you have a 90 mm micro lens and a 30
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mm micro lens and put them together do
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you think it makes a 120 mm micro
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lens today I'll be switching from my
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favorite 90 mm focal length to a much
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wider 30 mm focal length and try to see
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which one gives the best result in
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different scenarios I'll be pairing
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these with the om1 micro for3d camera
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some lighting and my reversible column
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tripod so my goal today is to experiment
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with a new focal length I never used
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before which is the 30 mm macro I'm also
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going to show you some interesting
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camera features like Focus tacking and
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focus bracketing and hopefully we all
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going to learn something today now let's
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go in the forest and see what we can
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just found the first subject right there
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which is a mushroom growing out of this
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tree stump so the first thing I'm going
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to do here is work and L with my camera
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and try to find an interesting
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composition before putting the camera on
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the tripod so I'm going to guide you
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through what I'm seeing in terms of
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composition I think there's a lot of
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distraction in the background so maybe
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if I'm moving a little bit
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lower you know just like that you can
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see how much the subject is now
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separated from the background and I
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think in macrophotography well in any
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types of Photography uh you really want
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to isolate your subject so as you can
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see moving a little bit more this way I
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think I just found something really
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interesting right there look at this
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small plane leaning towards the mushroom
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I think it's going to balance the shot
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yeah I think it's going to be something
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that so what I'm going to do now I
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always like to under expose the shot
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slightly probably around two stops to
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get some space to add light without you
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know overexpose using the shot I'm going
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to put one light on the right side right
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there and you're going to be able to see
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in real time the effect of the light
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because I want to
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illuminate the side of the stem right
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there and this small plane try to show
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you how small movement can really really
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difference so if I'm moving the light a
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little bit more this way I think it gets
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too much of the background right there
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so I'm going to fit it probably just
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like that so as you can see with one
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light only you can really do some magic
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here so now I'm going to show you with
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the other light so in terms of the
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here right there you can see the
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difference I think this is a little bit
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too high going to try to get it a little
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bit lower so it lit
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up you know the bottom of the
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stem right there look at the difference
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a little higher a little lower I think
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that's the perfect spot in terms of
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setting here I'm going to focus tag the
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image because I want to keep that
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background really really soft but
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obviously I could have used an f11
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aperture to get the whole Mushroom in
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Focus but I would have lose the soft
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background so in the camera menu you
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have the focus tacking feature which
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usually do everything in camera but for
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this shot and going to use Focus
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bracketing so I'm going to put Focus
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bracketing on after that you can set the
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number of shot I'm going to set it to 15
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Shot 2 second timer to make sure I don't
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introduce any
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shake so now that I tried the 30 mm lens
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with this subject I'm just going to
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quickly swap the lens and see the
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difference it makes with a 90 mm so as
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you can see now I'm a little bit further
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from the subject because obviously I'm
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using the 90 mm to be fair I use the
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same lighting so I didn't change
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anything with the light positioning
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because I want to do a fair comparison
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to know to see
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which which of the lens give the better
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effect because I think they're both
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completely different shots I thought it
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would be the 30 mm but now with this
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angle I'm not sure so what I love to do
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when I'm Focus bracketing is always make
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sure I'm focusing on the closest part to
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the lens of the subject and then hit the
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shutter and let the camera do the rest
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all right so look what we have here an
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interesting mushroom a dark mushroom
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growing out of this fallen tree so for
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this composition I chose the 30 mm macro
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because I want to incorporate a little
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bit more of the scene and I think if I'm
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using the 90 mm it's going to compress
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the shot a little bit too much and we're
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not going to be able to see you know all
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the details around the mushroom so
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basically what I'm thinking about I
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think I'm going to get a little bit
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lower because I want to see the bottom
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of the mushroom because the white gills
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are pretty interesting so it's going to
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be something like that so now I'm going
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to get my tripod and play with some
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lights so what I like to do is always
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start with one light at a time because
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other than that everything's going to
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get messed up and it's going to kind of
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be hard you know to see which light have
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which effect on the subject another
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thing to keep in mind is always
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underexpose the scene a little bit in
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order to make some room for these lights
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I'm going to start with a yellow tinted
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light just to get some nice halo around
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the subject all right so now I'm going
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to stick this right
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there all right so I think it looks
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pretty good now but there's something
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missing on this side I think it's too
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dark so I'm going to fill it with
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another light just like this one all
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right so that looks pretty cool in terms
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of composition like the lighting so now
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what I'm going to do I'm going to focus
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tack the image but I think I'm going to
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use the internal focus stacking feature
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because it's going to give me an idea of
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how many shots I need to get the
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mushroom all in focus and then I'm going
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to focus bracket the image because
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personally I like to do it manually in
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postprocessing so again it's important
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to focus on the closest part of the
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subject to your lens and then the focus
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stacking is going to go throughout the
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mushroom I think this feature is great
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for those you know who like to take a
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and don't like to take a lot of time in
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postprocessing all right since it's a
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camera I think it's important to mention
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that it is not really a 30 mm lens or a
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90 mm lens but the equivalent is more of
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for the 90 mm it's 180 mm focal length
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and the 30 is a 60 so really what I
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meant in the beginning of the video when
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I said that my favorite focal length was
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90 mm I was more trying to say that I
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love longer focal length rather than uh
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wider length but it might change
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today all right so now we're back where
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started and I'm not getting inspired I'm
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not seeing anything what I think I'm
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going to do I'm going to start Gathering
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stuff on the ground put it on the bridge
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and try this longer focal length and may
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maybe make a little miniature studio
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right on top of the bridge yeah let's do
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that I finally settled on what will be
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my next subject it's going to be this
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small tiny Branch with the small cocoon
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on it not sure if it's a cocoon anyways
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I'll write it down right there and this
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piece of moss that I'm probably going to
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use as the background try to get
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something steady here there's a lot of
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moss on the ground and the ground is
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really really soft so I'm going to need
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to dig the leg of the tripod in to make
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sure everything is nice and steady let's
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start with this small LED light just to
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L up the side of the subject something
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just like that now I'm going to use
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another light and try to create some
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highlight in the background so I'm going
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to put it behind the
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something something just like that
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obviously there's something missing I
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want to lit the front part of the
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subject a little bit more and maybe the
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side of the stem and now I'm going to
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use my ab to dial in the correct
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intensity for the lights again I'm going
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to focus bracket the image I'm going to
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focus on the closest part of the subject
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just like that hit the shutter button
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again let the camera do the
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rest all right so now just to make a
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comparison between the two focal length
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again I just swap the lens to the 30 mm
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lens and obviously I had had to get a
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little bit closer in order to fill the
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frame with the subject similar to The
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Last Shot uh and for this one instead of
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using the focus bracketing uh I'm going
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to use the in camera focus stacking
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because I don't want to put too much
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time on this shot because I know the
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other one's going to be better and let
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me know in the comment which one of the
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two you prefer all right so which lens I
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prefer the 30 mil versus the 90 mm I'm
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Still Loving more than 90 mm or the
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longer focal length should I say but the
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30 m I think is really interesting if
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you want to incorporate a little bit
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more of the surrounding and you know get
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a little bit more context around your
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subject I think it's fun to have in your
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bag probably you know to experiment
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because photography is all about
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experimentation the biggest takeaway I
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think I have today is not even about the
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focal length itself but more about the
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lightweight of this system you know I'm
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carrying a lot of gear making these
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videos and I can see how cool having
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something that light in my bag can be at
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least for my shoulders