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Close-up, Macro and Product Photography

Learn to control focus, reflections and backgrounds for small subjects.

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What you will learn

1. Explain the purpose of close-up, macro and product photography

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2. Apply a practical method to control focus, reflections and backgrounds for small subjects

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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk

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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement

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Step-by-step practice

Step 1. Identify why close-up, macro and product photography matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to control focus, reflections and backgrounds for small subjects.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Create a clean three-view product or natural-object study.
Safe and responsible practice: Seek permission where appropriate, protect children and vulnerable people, respect tikanga, wildlife, private land and venue rules.

Practical activity

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Create a clean three-view product or natural-object study.

Good-practice checklist

Access and consent are confirmed
The subject and environment are treated respectfully
Complete the practical activity for close-up, macro and product photography
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant

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