Macro in the Forest: Top Tips for Lighting and Focus Stacking Your Best Photos
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- From easy lighting tips and tricks to hand-held focus stacking for sharp macro photos, this week's photography tutorial goes over everything I do to take beautiful macro photos out in the forest. I also talk about macro composition, the aperture and shutter settings I use when focus stacking and how I blend LED lights with the natural light to emphasise my subjects.
I also enjoy wandering the forest, enjoying the peaceful, calming nature scenes and discuss why slowing down and enjoying your environment is the best part of macro photography.
Finally, I show how I use different macro lenses and macro extension tubes to gives wide angle or close up effects on my macro subjects.
I really hope you enjoy this video, it's one of my favourites I have ever done.
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A fantastic watch and great shots.
Thanks Gary!
@@AndrewLanxonPhotography Love your videos and photos 🙂
Mushrooms are a good subject to photograph, different shapes and sizes really make you think a lot about how to present the photos. Good job.
Thank you! Are there any of the mushroom photos that stand out as favourites for you?
25 minutes. I like this one.
Good choice! Thank you!
I've just bought my first macro lens and have been binge watching you videos 👍
Thank you! I hope you get some great shots with it!
@@AndrewLanxonPhotography Than you, Hopefully. 👍
Andrew! Such a funny guy...mushrooms don't exist much anymore here in fiery Colorado...thanks for the content!
Thank you for watching!
This was such a beautiful video 😍 love the hint of light tip, going to try that next time I’m out and about
Thank you as always! It's always worth playing around with the light. Often just a tiny hint of it, well placed, makes all the difference!
Liked the groups of little white fungi best. I’ve often found that I see a subject and then when I get down low with a shallow depth of field if can’t find my subject! So have packed a coloured lolly stick to place near by and locate. Think it’s been too dry for fungi yet here in south midlands
That's such a good idea! I definitely saw some compositions in the big groups of mushrooms that I then lost sight of and didn't take, but I also got distracted by finding more and more shots I wanted to get so I don't feel like I missed out at all! Late summer is still too early for them really but we'd had a few wet days in Scotland and I think I got lucky. I'm looking forward to getting out more over the coming months!
I enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing your walk with us. I need to get out in the forest here and look for some mushrooms, but it is a bit too warm here in southern Germany at the moment I think.
Thank you for taking the time to watch! Hopefully you get some nice ones springing up soon, although there's always something fun to photograph in a forest!
Great post!
Thank you!
Fantastic 😊
Thanks!!
mushroom season is back - yay!!
it was a real disappointment here (south Wales) last autumn. hopefully it'll be better with more varieties fruiting!
very enjoyable watch as usual. some of that getting down low photography displayed olympic gymnast level skills ;-)
It wasn't so much the getting down low that was tough, it was getting back up that was the problem!
@@AndrewLanxonPhotography I know all about that!!!
Thanks Andrew! Nice again and I almost can’t wait till the mushroom season and autumn colors…
Today I’ve tried a Raynox DCR 250 on my Sigma 90mm macro on Dahlia flowers… great option too!
Do you have used such clip on lenses like the Raynox? Giving more magnification… 😍
Thanks! I haven't tried one of the clip ons. I might give it a go at some point!
Very good
Thanks John!
Thanks alot
Thank you for watching!
@AndrewLanxonPhotography the pleasure was mine 😃
Really enjoy your videos. Just wondering how you set the Focus Increment? I have had mixed results with R6mii EF 100mm at f2.8 with very small increments, and poor results with larger increments 5 or higher.
Hey Bill, thanks for watching! I honestly find some of the auto focus bracketing settings to be a bit like alchemy and I tend to operate on a 'best guess' approach. I'll often have it set to use smaller increments (maybe not the smallest, but definitely in the lower end) and lean more into taking a higher number of focus points in order to guarantee I get all the focus points I need.
This can often be 60+ photos, but storage isn't an issue (I use fast 2TB CFExpress cards) and I usually use very wide apertures with narrow focus so I need to take more focus points than if I were at f/10. Even in these shots I did them multiple times and I often shot way more focus points than I required and simply culled the spares in post later on.
Do you also find it to be a trial and error process?
What size was the extension tube? The smallest I've come across is 13mm I could do with something around 7 or 8.
I used an 11mm one which I bought on amazon for RF mount
You should take a macro with a phone huawei pura 70 ultra😂