ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would not be what it is without the greatest editor in the world, Alisa Palazzo, who really makes me think! Without Victoria Craven, I wouldn’t have any books at all. And of course, no one is better at book design than Bob Fillie. I will never be able to thank all three of you enough!

Editorial Director: Victoria Craven
Senior Development Editor: Alisa Palazzo
Creative Director: Marysarah Quinn
Art Director: Jess Morphew
Designer: Bob Fillie
Production Manager: Alyn Evans
Typeset in DIN

Cover photograph by Bryan Peterson

Copyright © 2009 Bryan Peterson

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Amphoto Books
an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publications
an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
a division of Random House, Inc., New York
www.crownpublishing.com
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peterson, Bryan F.
  Understanding close-up photography: creative close encounters with or without a macro Lens / Bryan Peterson. — 1st ed.
    p. cm.
  Includes index.
  eISBN: 978-0-8174-0022-4
  1. Photography, Close-up. I. Title.

  TR683.P48 2009
  778.3’24—dc22

                                                         2008036031

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