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Something about macro photography is captivating and stunning. However, traditional macro lenses can be super expensive, and just not a practical investment for someone who just wants to occasional take these kind of pictures, or just as a hobby.  In this guide and a little help from digital-photography-school.com with  lessons on close-up and macro photography by Andrew S Gibson , I'm going to cover how to use a single reverse macro ring to use an 18-55mm lens as a macro. 

I walk through the different parks around my home town quite often. Since I have a deep love for the Everglades as well, I try to find all the different ways that i can get a view of it. From lovely parks with trails and sidewalks to a backwards dirt road. Trust me...there here in South Florida, hidden, like little gems.

I had the pleasure of working with Miami Greens Screens in order to photograph the Celebrity Cruise line booth at the Broward convention center for the Cruise3sixty event!. They had the most amazing set up, and by far the most exciting and most viewed booth of the convention. Check out the pictures below!

Sometimes we just dont get it right in camera. If you shoot in RAW, Lightroom can be savor for underexposed images. I go walking through the Everglades here in Florida quite often and here are some recent images I didnt quite get right in camera and was able to save in post. By shooting in RAW there is much more flexibility in Lightroom and other software editing image to "recover" it. Notice in the images below the detail I was able to extract that otherwise would have been gone. 

I love spending my afternoons in the Everglades. I find it so relaxing at the end of the day after I pick my children up from school and we're able to take a short drive out to the glades, where thank-god they blow off some steam!