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Tracy Calder

Tracy Calder co-founded Close-up Photographer of the Year – a competition celebrating close-up, macro and micro photography – with her husband in 2018. She has written numerous photography books and her work has appeared on the walls of The Photographers’ Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery in London. To find out more visit www.cupoty. com, Instagram: @cupoty and @tracy_calder_photo.

Understanding how light behaves and how to use it to your advantage is as crucial for closeup and macro photography as it is for landscape, portraiture or any other genre. You

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