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8 free textile textures

Here comes another high-res texture pack with textile structures. It contains cotton, jeans, synthetic (plastic) and leather surfaces. With around 12 megapixels resolution is quite high!

All photos by freepx.net. Free for personal and commercial use!

Format: jpg • Archive: jpg • Filesize: 13.6 MB

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Macro lens video

One good thing about when you own a DSLR which can record video is that you can use all your lenses also for recording videos. It would possibly be very expensive to buy similar lenses for an HD video camera. Here is a very nice example of what you can do with it when you own a macro lens, or extention tubes mentioned in a past post. The video is spiced up very nicely in After Effects!

macro kingdom from clemento on Vimeo.

via Bunneh Munches

Extension tubes how-to

What are extension tubes? How do you use them? And why do they enable macro photography?

An extension tube is a device which you plug between your lens and your camera body. Their only purpose is to increase the distance between the lens and the sensor chip, where the picture gets captured. Continue Reading »