Love the art you decide to keep, ie blurred foreground and background and a perfectly sharp bit somewhere aesthetically appealing. Cool as. Check out Simon Booth from the UK if you haven't already. You will like his work for sure. Good tip, the bee on its way out to avoid all those arse shots. Cheers, Ewen.
Loved this, Ewen. I like the idea of treating macro photography as a creative endeavour instead of a technical one. The image at 11:00 is magical! When I lived in Hawthorn as a young man, I would sometimes climb the fence into the gardens before dawn and watch the city wake up from the Temple of the Winds. Great memories. I’m heading to Jamieson tomorrow, and you’ve just inspired me to do some macro photography up there. 👍
Thank you for this. Great photos! I end up shooting many photos on trips, but then I avoid sorting through the photos. I guess that is a different skill to learn 😅
Periodically, you need days just for you. Thanks for sharing your day.
Thanks Steve!
Love the art you decide to keep, ie blurred foreground and background and a perfectly sharp bit somewhere aesthetically appealing. Cool as. Check out Simon Booth from the UK if you haven't already. You will like his work for sure. Good tip, the bee on its way out to avoid all those arse shots. Cheers, Ewen.
Thank you for the kind words :) 54 years around the sun and finally I've figured out the arse end of a bee!
"I didn't really need 5,000 photos of bees" - surely you can never have too many photos of bees, Ewen. 🙂
Up to my bees in photos!
Can't believe some of the details in some of those shots 🫨
Good lens, not just for macarons :)
Loved this, Ewen. I like the idea of treating macro photography as a creative endeavour instead of a technical one. The image at 11:00 is magical! When I lived in Hawthorn as a young man, I would sometimes climb the fence into the gardens before dawn and watch the city wake up from the Temple of the Winds. Great memories. I’m heading to Jamieson tomorrow, and you’ve just inspired me to do some macro photography up there. 👍
Thanks Peter! Do you have a macro lens for the X2D or an extension tube maybe?
@@EwenBell I have an extension tube for it. However, I also just received a 100mm macro lens for the Canon, so I’ll take that, too. 🙂
@@peterfritzphoto Could use one macro to photograph the other camera :)
@@EwenBell I could. And in front of opposing mirrors, for extra points.
Thank you for this. Great photos! I end up shooting many photos on trips, but then I avoid sorting through the photos. I guess that is a different skill to learn 😅
Yeah the editing/culling side of things is a lot less fun than capturing :) Editing feels a lot like "work" to me!
Have you tried the focus stacking in the camera, or does that take away from the moment too much?
Focus stacking is the exact opposite of the look I am going for :) It's an interesting pursuit, just not my thing.
I love using maco lenses, it's been too long since I did. And I love this video. 🪷
Thanks Michael!