Thanks so much for the video - always informative and educational. Especially like the 360 degrees view that makes clear where everything is located. One critique: my backgrounds in macro are often an afterthought, thus I often get lovely subject presentation (sharp, well exposed, and interesting), but then my backgrounds are an uninteresting dull grey-brown. It seems that this video’s images suffered the same fate. Although it means more manipulation of the scene, it seems like that bridge was crossed a long time ago. Any suggestions on how to deal with that empty space? Maybe introduce an out of focus object with some color and lighting? Your thoughts.
Glad you like the 360s - sometimes they just seem to work! I know exactly what you mean about the backgrounds, and for these shots I think it is just a case that the backgrounds are so far away and so out of focus that they became rather featureless. I find that shooting with a 50mm macro, as opposed to the 105, can give a lot more background detail and context to the shots. As you say, introducing something into the background could certainly work. There's a chap (Canadian, I think) called Daniel Aucoin who has tried some interesting ideas, including where he puts something in the background (wire wool, I think) and lights that with coloured lights. He also has better glasses than I do! 🙂
Your new 360 views are great. Another great video.
Thanks, glad you like the video and the 360s. I try not to overuse the 360, but sometimes I think it just works!
The shot of the acorn you could add a facial image in Photoshop as a double exposure.
It was very tempting!
Thanks so much for the video - always informative and educational. Especially like the 360 degrees view that makes clear where everything is located. One critique: my backgrounds in macro are often an afterthought, thus I often get lovely subject presentation (sharp, well exposed, and interesting), but then my backgrounds are an uninteresting dull grey-brown. It seems that this video’s images suffered the same fate. Although it means more manipulation of the scene, it seems like that bridge was crossed a long time ago. Any suggestions on how to deal with that empty space? Maybe introduce an out of focus object with some color and lighting? Your thoughts.
Glad you like the 360s - sometimes they just seem to work! I know exactly what you mean about the backgrounds, and for these shots I think it is just a case that the backgrounds are so far away and so out of focus that they became rather featureless. I find that shooting with a 50mm macro, as opposed to the 105, can give a lot more background detail and context to the shots. As you say, introducing something into the background could certainly work. There's a chap (Canadian, I think) called Daniel Aucoin who has tried some interesting ideas, including where he puts something in the background (wire wool, I think) and lights that with coloured lights. He also has better glasses than I do! 🙂