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It’s perfectly OK to ‘cheat’ and prepare the subject of your macro photograph, by carefully blowing away specks of dirt and pollen.

Cleaning the flower ahead of time can save you hours of post-production in Photoshop.

Spot on

Q When I shoot flowers with my macro lens, the images always show marks on the petals. What can I do to avoid this? Ruth Hall

A IT’S inevitable that colourful petals have little spots and marks all over them. When you are just looking at a scene with your naked eye, you barely notice them, but when you view your resulting macro image, they are often really obvious.

Other than actual blemishes on the flower itself, they will just be little spots of pollen, grit and dust. All these

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