Macro Photography with Coloured Background Cards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
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I feel the green card for a more natural look is the only one I'd use. Maybe blue also for a sky look.
The pink one looks great with a green subject like our Moroccan Saddle-backed Cricket.
Always great when you invite Indoors Micael onto the channel, he usually has some nice contrary opinions.
I do bird photography as my true love but recently got the laowa 100mm based on your videos. Im slowly learning but its so different! My main problem is being comfortable with such a shallow DOF but stacking is working (again thanks to your tutorial)!
I like it, one of the reasons being that it’s easier to see some of the colours in the insects. I think it’s probably worth on a personal level playing around more with different cards, colours and patterns that fit someone’s photography specifically.
One thing I noticed about your videos is that you respect and love nature, as a nature photographer I love that ❤
Also, even tho shooting live bugs is extremely harder with the stacking.. you prefer not to kill or use dead bugs. I respect that too ❤
My world, how can you stay so stable?!?! 😂 Your hands are not shaking at all!! 😮😮 Brilliant video, and the quality of the photos is excellent!
Training :)
Also a heavier lense just makes it a bit easier, for me atleast.
The cards give more of a wow factor and can turn a dull image into a good one. I would use them often if i had some
thankx macro guru!!
I've been using 10x15cm photos as a color background for my macro shots for many years now. And I choose a color for each insect. It turns out a very interesting and natural background. Thank you for the video!
I love the outdoors Micael and indoors Micael! I am still learning so much from your videos. I am currently using Olympus E510. I got it years ago when it first came out. I used it a few times and it lived in my closet for a very long time. I didn't know anything about all the different avenues of photography. I have just ordered a Canon Rebel T7 which will be here some time this week. I want to learn as much as I can about macro photography and your videos are truly helping me. Thank you! I always leave thumbs-up!
Background cards help the subject stand out so the background is not distracting as it usually is.
I really like the look they give to the photographs. I don’t think that it would work for all macro though. Another genre of photography where those would look great is water drop photography. But, I think the cards would need to be a little bit bigger. Thanks for taking us along!!
You could also use a screen or tablet of that size and display any image you want, even video. Maybe something to try out.
I use printed backgrounds alot these ones look really good!
This is awesome
I see the second video with a similar shooting technique, only in that video the guy held the flash with his other hand. Everyone shoots how they want, but at higher magnifications, especially when stacking, stabilization is important! it's hard to take a good photo with one hand when your set weighs 3+ kg. Thank you for the video!
I love your videos and thank you for sharing your knowledge. thank you very much.
Enjoyed this walk with you and interesting to see you using the OM system and these cards. I think the cards increase the visibility of the subjects and give creative options. For the price, I plan to give them a try. Great to get the inspiration. I look forward to your comparison of the OM and SONY systems. I have an Olympus and Sony too. I like the weight and clarity of the Olympus system, but prefer the resolution of the Sony. Since Image quality if my highest value, I've pretty much given up on the Olympus, but I always appreciate your take on these things.
Looks great but I'd probably only use them in a studio environ. Half the fun is discovering the perfect background leaf on the ground and then carrying it around for half an hour searching out a suitable subject , lmao.
A multicolour pack of micropore cloths will work well as a hands free alternative and be useful in other ways...
These look interesting and better suited to indoor setup photography.
The cards would get in the way of the folage where I take most of my photos.
Depends on the environment where you shoot I suppose
Looks good to me!
Not sure how i feel about these yet, not a fan for a lot of the shots but some of them look really cool
Great idea!
for me it is the worst form of background. Only natural background, only nature.Regards
We got some of these from AK Diffuser when we bought his custom made diffuser.
This whole struggle between smaller sensors and the size and expense of full frame, combined with the amazing colours available in the Fujifilm X system, is exactly why I have ditched full frame, moved to Fuji X which I use for almost everything. The quality is almost always on par with full frame, with just a few exceptions like high ISO, where I accept the compromise, partly because of the X system's attractive noise characteristics.
I do keep a Fuji GF system with a couple of very special lenses like the 110mm, for when I absolutely want higher quality, like portraits, but this is not because I split my day-to-day photography in two, like with the full frame + OM setup, more because once in a blue moon I want to play with something else. I will have sold most of my GF lenses very soon.
I was wondering what the ticking/rattle sound was with each shot? Is that just the shutter? Or focus stacking? It’s an unusual sound.
Hi Mark. First of all, I love your videos - found your channel recently and you are great at talking about gear.
When doing rapid focus stacking in-camera with the Olympus cameras, they can only use the electronic shutter - so the camera itself will be completely silent. What you hear is the flash.
@@MicaelWidell wow, thanks so much for the encouraging words! I keep coming back to your videos, because I really want to do more insect photography. My attempts so far have been unspectacular to say the least.
The focus stack in camera sounds great, and that works in coordination with the flash? Like you get a flash for each shot?
@@markwiemels Yes, the OM system is truly great for macro photography, as it is the only system where you can have the camera take a fast focus stack in sync with the flash, and even have the camera put the stack together in close to real time. The only limit to how fast you can stack is how fast the flash is. The Godox v350o is a favorite of mine and many other Olympus macro photographers, because it is very fast, powerful while being small and compact.
If you want to get started quickly with insect photography I recommend the videos in my “beginner” playlist. They contain condensed advice to get started quickly.
@@MicaelWidell thanks. I will do for sure! Can the Sony cameras do focus bracketing that will sync with the flash? Happy to merge them in editing, but I wasn’t sure about the flash part.
nice! a question: how many of the final pictures that you show here are actually stackings and how many are just single shots?
Hmm I think around 30% of the photos in this video are stacks. The rest single frames. The reason is that stacks often fail, especially when the insect is moving fast.
Is this why the flash sometimes is like a strob?
@@MikeLegris You have to shoot a bunch and hope one is in focus. Pretty much impossible to know how many 'keepers' until you get home. Some people use their body to focus, slowly moving the camera in, shooting all the way from one side of focus to the other. Because with that shallow DOF it's impossible to hold focus on a spot.
Hey! I was wondering what are your general whitebalance settings are
Just set it to 5500K so it matches the flash. Works well also without a flash.
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what is the thing with that multiple flashes? Thanks :)
It’s called focus stacking. This camera has it built in. The point is to combine several photos to get slightly deeper depth of field.
@@MicaelWidell IThank you very much for your reply. I am familiar with focus stacking, unfortunately my sony @6400 doesnt have it so i had no idea it works like this, although it makes sense.
Are you taking those quick multiple shots, then stacking them in post?
Around 20-30% of the photos in this video are stacks, and all of the stacks are made by the camera automatically. I did not stack any photos in post in this video.
Cool, that’s a nice in camera feature! Great photos, the depth you capture is great, I am finding even at F8 the depth is so shallow with a single photo. Shooting with a canon R6/Laowa 90mm RF. Keep up the great videos! 😎
What settings do you use on the flash? When its flashing that fast?
Usually manual mode 1/16 strength. To get fast automatic bracketing with flash you need a newer Olympus camera.
Hello indoors Michael! I'm interested in the fast tapping noise your camera makes! I am in the fujifulm family and I'm waiting for my first external flash in the mail. Will my camera be able to shoot photos that quickly? With your Olympus camera, are you using a photo stacking mode that takes all those photos at once?
Yes I'm using stacking mode. No other system has in body automatic stacking as far as I know. I have no idea how fast a fuji camera can shoot. But probably about as fast as this one.
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it's strange to see colors that are rare to see in nature behind the subject. Red especially looks kind of weird to me.
what setting do you use on the flash and camera?
Watch my macro settings video
@@MicaelWidell hmm vilken video är det du hänvisar till? Du har väldigt många videos med olika typer av inställningar osv... pst väldigt fina bilder och verkligen, det var länge sedan vi hade vår och sommar här 😅
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Brill video as always, not for me though find it a challenge just with the camera lens, flash and diffuser = raynox. Not many insects for me this year so for, the farmer as removed 10 ackers of wildflower meadows, not a good year so for.
I sent a message on instagram
It's much easier to change the background in post (especially now with Photoshop AI)
Nice review. Question: Are you using in camera focus stacking? Thanks in advance.
Yes I often use the automated focus stacking feature, but I prefer to assemble the stack in my laptop using Helicon Focus.
I would love to try, but it'a hard enough or me to hold my camera + flash + diffuser steady with 2 hands. I can't imagine doing it with one. I need to start lifting weights.
In fact, it really does help.
strange soound, do you use electronic shutter or mechanical shutter ?
electronic shutter - the sound is from the flash
My daughter got a set of these. I have used them a few times. They can, at times, enhance images, particularly when there is something distracting in the background. They are also a pain to use, as I normally have my hands full when shooting. I haven't tried using the little gooseneck, alligator clip thingy that came with it, which you could probably use to clip to something nearby and position the card where you need it. Of course, you would have to remove the individual card from the stack, and then put it back afterwards. OK, if you have the time. I've also thought about taking a few out of focus foliage pictures and print them to use as more natural looking backgrounds.
I believe these were intended to be used as out of focus backgrounds but suffer from showing screen printing details when the fly lands on the card. Home made with spray paint (end of can remnants) might be better. Green and other natural colors seem like a good idea.
I love them. Sold!