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- Lockdown has forced us all to try new things and adapt to new ways of living. During this time I have discovered the world of macro photography and it is been blowing my mind!
In this video I show you many of the images I've captured during lockdown. I hope this video will inspire you all to get out and use the art of photography to reconnect with nature once more.
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Your enthusiasm never fails to inspire me to get out and capture my own images. Thanks again Kim.
I enjoy your enthusiasm! For about forty years photography was just a way to make money. For the last twenty I only pick up a camera for fun. Your energy level is contagious. Thanks for sharing what you enjoy.
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Great video.
Wonderful video, Kim! Yes, beauty is all around us from the microscopic to landscape vistas to the expanse of outer space! Love your passion and your images are incredible!! Good to see you out in nature!
Hi Kim. It's so nice to see what you have been doing! You have captured some wonderful photos! I especially love the pond bubbles and dandelion structures! What a eye-opening gift we have been given as photographers to be able to turn our imaginations to macro photography while our larger field of view has been reduced by this pandemic. I too have been impressed by the great big world in my own backyard! I'm guessing a lot of us will be making room for a macro lens in our landscape photography bag as we move forward.
Yes, the beauty is all around. Well done.
I am so glad that you don’t feel guilty to take your camera with you! I’ve read about so many photographers that they feel guilty to take their camera with them on their daily walk. I just don’t get it. As if you could get infected when you’re taking pictures alone in the countryside. And your results are amazing!
If I lived in a town or city I wouldn't do it but as I live in the countryside and rarely see another person on my walks, I see it as ok. Many people have been talking photos on their phones during lockdown so I guess a camera is no different. Plus macro has helped me get through this time so in many ways, it's a way of coping :)
Thank you for a truly lovely video and images, accompanied by some glorious bird song along the way. I love your enthusiasm and very special way of seeing.
Hi kim yes you are right there ,if it wasent for the small things nothing else would existe .That was apsolutly beautiful . Real colourful images and very wel narrated really like it .
Thanks for sharing your macro journey. I loved your enthusiasm!
Sehr schönes Video und tolle Makroaufnahmen
Welcome to the world of macro photography - it is a wondrous world we pass by everyday. My favorite photo to this point is a tiny jumping spider I caught hiding in a rose last year. Patience and lots of images later, I had several "keepers" which still astound me with nature's beauty. Looking forward to seeing more of your adventures!
Thank you and what a wonderful world to be welcomed to! Your spider image sounds great!
Hi Kim. An enjoyable vlog, a nice set of images, my favourite being the one taken after sunset, cracking shot :)
That shot at 10:25 is beautiful, it's not just a picture but a work of art!!!
Thank you very much! I too love that image and glad that you see the beauty in it too. So much detail and colour in the wings
Hello Kim, interesting video presented with lots of enthusiasm which is catching. Out doing macro latter. The shots are excellent for a first timer at macro. This has given me lots to think about. Thanks for sharing and stay safe when out and about 😷
Beautifully shot. All the best to you.
Very nice. Well done, Kim.
Great video! Everyone should just take a moment each day to appreciate what is around us.
Magic vlog again your love and passion of the Natural World shine out of your images and yourself, it is infectious.
Lockdown has caused us to look more closely in our backyards, nature is incredible. The image of the fly captured on the pond surface, brilliant. Part of the micro food chain we have failed to see for so long. through your channel, you open our eyes to the wonderfully diverse world around us. Thank you x
Thank you for this very kind comment Stephen. Really glad that you enjoyed the vlog and the image if the fly. I'm so happy with that capture. 🙂
Magic is in the details 👍🏾🌟🌟
Great job Kim, loved this. I do enjoy macro it's a lot of fun, thanks for sharing.
Thanks John - glad you enjoyed it :)
A great start in the world of macro Kim ..... it’s a great complimentary genre to landscapes as when the light is poor for landscapes, it can be ideal for macro.
light is different, not poor.The mood is created by light, sunlight, grey light and everything in between
Thank you Grant and yes! I think when it's too bright or dull (or out with golden hour or stormy light) macro will be my new go to genre. Love it!
Nice vlog, need to have a go at macro when I next go out. Really liked your images 👍
Love your wonderful enthusiasm. You are really getting the hang of this macro thing. It has also taught me the difference between looking and really seeing and listening and really hearing, at all levels of being alive. Well done and keep going.
Thank you very much! I totally feel this too - it's amazing!
Thank you for sharing another wonderful video Kim. I have also been enjoying some macro photography in Toronto and the local parks. It really requires a huge amount of patience and precision focusing on the small details! Love your passion and enthusiasm. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!
You're very welcome Lisa and lovely to hear that you've been enjoying macro too. It's such a great past time
Kim, if you want something that works in between Your macro and long Telephoto lens Try the Nikon 28-300 mm lens, it is extremely close Focusing approx 0.5 metres. This allows you to get Really good close ups while giving you a bit more distance from easily spooked insects such as Butterflies and Damsels/Dragonflies and gives incredible Detail, probably even better on your Z 6 ( I assume, Never used one yet ). I use a full frame Nikon D750 and it works great on that. The results can be like using my Sigma 105 Macro lens with a little less Bokah. I found Macro Photography about 5 years ago and have never looked back. My year is now split in two halfs, late spring/Summer is usually spent photographing Butterflies, Damsels/Dragonflies, wild and domestic Flowers ( macro ) an my Bird Photography. The exception being my Annual Late spring month usually spent in the outer Hebrides where i combine this type of Photography with My First love of Landscapes. The other half of the Year, Autumn winter and Early spring is back to my Landscapes with a bit of Macro when we get morning frosts and heavy dew on Spiders webs. I find this keeps my interest going right through the year and never get Board not even at nearly 70 yrs old.
Macro is so much fun...I've worked on some abstract macro shots as well as outdoors. Loved seeing your photos Kim.
Wonderful to see you enjoying this new world and sharing it with us. Thank you again and again for your enthusiasm and positive outlook.
You're very welcome Don 😊
Thank's Kim. I needed your enthusiasm to pick up my photography again.
You've discovered a new world, Kim. Note that this new world is bigger than Landscape's. There's nothing to stop you from taking Landscape photography and taking the 100 mm MACRO lens with you. Do that or one day you look at something and you start calling yourself names because you don't have the lens with you.
What lovely photos, skillfully done and well presented. Thanks for sharing Kim.
Thanks Roy! Glad you like the images 🙂
Indeed
WOW! I need to get out there and shoot macro! I don't have a dedicated macro lens but I have ordered some extension tubes from Amazon (even with Prime it says they will take 6-8 weeks to deliver!) as I am getting inspiration from everywhere and everyone who has a you tube channel! Like you Kim I too live in a rural area and am grateful that within a few minutes walk I can be either down by the river, in the forest or in a field. It is true there is beauty in nature and we don't give it the credit it is due. Thank you for more inspiring photos.
Hi Kim, thank you for your lovely video about macro photography.
You're very welcome 😊
Just after lockdown started I bought a used macro lens to have a play with, and it’s turned out to be a revelation and an absolute sanity-saver, both for photographing garden flowers and bugs (got some cracking shots of damselflies emerging from our pond) and also for doing some creative and more abstract indoor stuff too. Absolutely loving it 😊
This is great to hear! It's been a sanity-saver for me too. Hope you'll continue to enjoy it - it's great
I am so glad you have discovered the great joy that can be found in the tiny magical world . I have always loved close up and macro photography, I find it so compelling . I thought you got some great shots thanks for sharing them with us Kim . Take care :D Teddy
Thank you Teddy - I am loving it and glad that you enjoy it too :)
Good morning Kim! A wonderful insight into the world of macro-photography. Your keen photographic eye has captured some amazing images. Well done, Kim!
Thank you John - lovely to hear that you like the images.
It's amazing to see well-focused macro images with a hand-held camera. Do you set AF continuous, or do it in some other secret ways, Kim-san? As for me, I mostly produce blurred images only with a hand-held camera.
Great video. Love your enthusiasm!
Thank you very much Rob 😊
It's a whole new world out there in macro. I love butterflies and insects. Very close to a Grizzled Skipper on my recent lockdown outing. Great video Kim
Thank you very much! It certainly is a while new world and it's wonderful to see and discover
Some fabulous images Kim. What blows my mind is contemplating the size of some of those insects, imagine the size of a fly heart! Time to grab my macro lens again, thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you very much Dave! Gosh a fly heart must be tiny and so very delicate. Really makes us think.
I am so pleased you are into macro now, it is what I do most of the time as a hobby and It will be great to see a lady macro vlogger out in the fields. Your results are really good, you are on the road to an addiction and I look forward to watching it.
Thank you very much Brenda. I am loving this new world and great to hear that you enjoy macro too!
So what you need is a 15mm super wide macro lens then you can have the insect in it's surroundings.
As for lockdown "how have you coped", I can't say I noticed it as I have numerous macro lenses from half life size right up to a 10x objectiv and bellows, and my trail cam has kept an eye on the hedgehogs and the cats that visit my suburban garden.
I've been interested in Macro since the summer of 76 when I lived on a farm and bugs where ten a penny. I wonder what that flies tongue looks like, was my first Macro challenge. Now I really have to tempt them as years of insecticide and the loss of carcases and habitat and the amount of fast things we've invented take their toll, including Wind Turbines which I'd ban tomorrow first thing.
I have a lily that in spring smells like faeces and a whole gang of insects arrive as it's smell travels on the morning breeze. I grow Fennel as well purely for the noise of insects as it is one busy plant on a sunny day and even the whole wasp family visit. Wasps can be attracted by fish, so I keep fish scraps in the freezer ready for the hungry wasps in the spring so I can shoot some macro video of them cutting it up and carrying it off. I saw my first Jumping spider in the garden this year but I had a 4x objectiv on with a 17mm working distance, which was too close for it before it legged it, but I saw those big eyes even though they were out of focus with maybe 2mm to go.
As I've got older and more crippled, long focus macro seems impossible as I can't stay still unless I'm on my belly. Just as lockdown cut in I ordered a new lens to fit between my 5x objectiv and my 1x macro. I picked the 2x Iaowa as it doesn't extend as you focus, which is ideal for macro, as one of my old lenses ends up very long on close focus. i also ordered a tripod to upgrade my 1976 one. This one has a boom so the legs don't have to knock the stems and disturb the insect.
I set it up for the first time expecting to shoot some video of a caterpillar of the Mullein moth eating. It seemed to be asleep so I left it running and nipped indoors for a cup of tea. Later as I viewed all the videos, not much happened for ages then its face contorted and then I realised I'd been filming the wrong end as it promptly went to the loo, then wandered off. I definitely felt connected with nature at that moment.
OMG you photographed a spider without a long long lens lol. 😂 😂 😂 Now I know how hard this will have been for you... Well done nice vlog and some lovely pics hun.... Xx
Such an enthusiastic video! Never really done macro photography apart from a few household objects, must be exhilarating to find a new world hidden away. 👍🏻
Thanks Pamela and it certainly is! Give it a go if you can - I bet the three lochs drive will have some great flowers and insects to be found and captured 😉
its a great world out there Kim, full of magic , keep at it your doing a great job , the world is your oyster , seek and you will find , good luck and take care
Thank you very much Mick. There's so much out there to see and discover
Great shots as always. I wonder where that girl who was nervous at the start went. Kim, great job.
Was it just me who was getting anxious about how close your hand was to that barbed wire Kim ? 😮
Kim, I'm so pleased you've got into the world of Macro photography! Photographically speaking, it's my first love! I love every aspect of photography, including landscape, but macro is where my heart is. Good isn't it? By the way, you'll have to forgive me, but in the beginning bit of the video I'd got one ear listening to what you were saying, and the other ear listening to the sound of that beautiful Skylark in the background! Oh, and I don't know if you noticed when you photographed the dying fly on the surface of the water, but what is even more amazing is that it had just laid its eggs!
Wow I hadn't noticed that it had laid it's eggs! Thank you very much for pointing that out. Macro photography is great and I look forward to seeing where it takes me moving forwards.
You got some great images there, Kim. Of course if you can't afford a macro lens you could always get extension tubes which can work great.
Thank you very much Nick and yes - extension tubes are just as good 👍
great as always, even the maggots were interesting.
Thank you Richard 😊
Kim, great video. Are you hand-holding these shots? I simply cannot get crisp focus with macro lenses unless I'm on a tripod. Any secrets to hand-holding (other than bright sunlight and a high shutter speed)?
How to you manage to take sharp macro flower photos when the wind is blowing? Any advice? I struggle with maintaining focus.
Wonderful work Kim... Lens used please?
Love your enthusiasm Kim and 100% agree with your comments about macro. It's a whole different world and does change your attitude towards nature. You have captured some lovely images. Have you checked out Simon Booth's recent macro videos, well worth a watch? Kind regards - Rob
Thank you Rob - glad you enjoyed it. I haven't but shall go and check them out now :)
Hi Kim interestingly beautiful video to watch you seemed to even get fired up at one point like you got the bug ( sorry couldn't resist ). I have to admit that I've never even considered macro before however the thought of capturing a world within a world is starting to look interesting. Until next time take care and stay safe.
Thank you Clive and the pun made me laugh 😂 macro is great! Definitely something to consider if you enjoy nature
A tip for everyone: Shoot a burst. One is likely to be better focussed than the others. Maybe you can stack focus.
A second. Use a flash.
A channel, not mine:
Look Closer. Talks about finding and photographing much smaller subjects than these. The TH-camr videos them.
A Photographer:
Levon Biss. A British photographer, in London I think. He will blow your mind.
A final tip. You can use a macro lens for landscape photography. The buildings in the distance might take six to a dozen shots, you then stitch them together. You get a high res result.
Thank you for sharing these tips!
Levon Biss shoots dead insects and in studio!
At 5:59, The flowers and from 8:15. Which aperture are you using? Are you shoting manual? Which lens?
Lovely photos.
Aperture ranges from f0-3. I have an old school fully manual macro lens (micro Nikkor 55mm 1:28) :)
@@kimgrantphotography I mean, are you shooting at f/2,8, 5,6 8 or so?
How close to the subjet are you?
Hi Kim what lens are you using some nice shots.
Hey Harry it's an old lens called - micro Nikkor 55mm 1:28
Wow. No flash at all in any of these?
No flash no. I don't own a flash gun with a soft box and the camera flash would be too harsh and create unnatural looking light, so for now I don't use flash.
Everyone is doing macro
It's wonderful! Especially just now when we can't travel