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Photographing Minerals
March 16, 2012 | Arizona Experience

An ArizonaExperience article includes a video in which Jeff Scovil, perhaps the most widely-known mineral photographer, offers tips on how to photograph minerals. The secrets seem to be in the lighting.


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