Budget lens hacks
PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine|March 2020
Need to inject some atmosphere into your portraits? Matty Graham shares four lens hacks that will transform your results…
Matty Graham
Budget lens hacks

Stuck in a rut with your picture-taking? It happens to us all and one solution that always comes up trumps is to try something new and creative. Hacking your lens by using props to enhance or generate flare and reflections is a perfect route to injecting some much-needed mood and atmosphere into images.

This story is from the March 2020 edition of PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine.

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