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Thank you so much Stephen. Glad you enjoyed it

@@capturingnaturewithsandip Thank you so much. It is fun to capture some film of dragonflies in flight.

Thank you. How do you get close enough? Wait by the perches?

So was I 🤣

Totally. Every summer I spend hours watching them and photographing them. Amazing hunters.

@geireriknielsen9075 I've been trying to photograph them around my yard. I only have a 300mm. I can't get close to them.

@@Joe_I_Hadley Are you able to see where they perch? Dragonflies tend to go back to the same areas all the time so if you can work that out, perhaps you can get close enough when they are resting to at least get some nice shots of them resting. You might also be able to get shots of them taking off and landing depending on your patience. Yards I would expect to be a little bit difficult. Do you have a pond where they lay their eggs or are you able to figure out where their spawning ground is? You might find you have some luck there. I was only a yard away from the one dragonfly laying eggs in the film. It sat quite still. Just some ideas in the hope you might succeed.

@geireriknielsen there is a pond but it's surrounded by blackberry vines. Limited aces. There was one perching it had gold wing I didn't have the camera. I got some shots of another one it would sit with its abdomen straight in the air. There gone now. There's some damsel flys.

Yes it was. Glad you enjoyed it and that i managed to inspire you. Makes me very happy

Interesting point indeed. I will try that at some point, see if it is something I can recommend. There might be a follow up "tips and tricks two: the return of the cpl" :-D I appreciate your subscription and comment, thank you so much

Good luck with that and I hope it works. A small tip, I have actually put some additional diffusing material inside the "cup" in order to decrease the brightest light out of the flash. Anything will work for that, some tissue etc. So see how you go without anything at first and if you don't like it you can try with some extra material

Hi, hope you are getting some good shots with your diffuser. Just as an addon to my previous answer, in my latest video, ruclips.net/video/rnaubw_C5pU/видео.html I show the inlays that I was talking about. Timecode 11:36 onwards. You might find it useful.

Thank you. I use a "trick" for the handheld video that you can try: shoot in 120fps. My hands are very shaky, but at that framerate you get 4s per second of video and you can cut and paste your best segments afterwards. The problem is external forces like wind which might throw your macrosubjects way out of focus but you can't do anything about those anyway. Good luck.

@@geireriknielsen Took me a while, finaly figured out how to get the 120 set on my em5 - it was not actually hard to find, but odd when shooting it shows 60p, but I guess thats how it is - odd UI on the older olympus cams. Thanks again for the idea - cant waitt to try getting some macro slow vid for the next one :)

@@BMadPhoto Def give that a go, I am sure you will be pleased

Thank you so much

Thank you so much

Thank you Phil

Thank you. Yes it was gorgeous.

Yes. It is beautiful here when it is not raining

Thank you. Apologies for not posting of late, but a new video is on the way up. Beautiful light

@@geireriknielsen Look forward to it - hope you are well and enjoying the coming of some nice spring and summer weather :) Take care!

Also. To answer your question, no, I have never used a macro lens + extension tubes but you are supposed to be able to with interesting effects so might be worth a go. Though you already have a micro four thirds so some of the effect might be more noticeable on a full frame camera. Extension tubes are great with a telephoto lens BTW. I have used a 600mm with extension tubes and that is a lot of fun, though I would recommend a monopod to help support

Thank you so much @capturingnaturewithsandip

Thank you so much for the kind comment

Thanks for the tip 🙂

Yeah. Bar the rain, but it is getting better so not complaining

Thank you so much Will. Very kind

Thank you so much, very appreciated

Winter macro is a bit more challenging than spring and summer for sure, you have to look harder and be more creative in order to get nice images.

Provided we don't get too dry of a summer there seems to be plenty of lovely little mushrooms about when we get to Autumn, but after this winter I am not yet ready to talk about fall :-D

@@geireriknielsen Some of the UK based folks I follow seem to find mushrooms all winter long there. We're having a weirdly warm winter but normally all you find here is snow. LOL

@@MichelleCox I don't know where they are, perhaps they have access to more woodland than I have. Around me we get mushrooms in October and November usually, but then it is really really good with a plethora of species and every year something new. So something to look forward too as I look out the window at yet another rainy day here. Hope yours is better 🙂

Thank you so much

and happy new year to you too

Thank you so much. I apologise, but I did not know you had a channel, I will go and watch now :-) Happy new year to you too

Sorry, my accent probably. The bird is a goldcrest. It's fun going through your yearly pictures, and yes it can be difficult so you have to be utterly ruthless about your own photography :-) Good luck and looking forward to seeing the film

A place near where I live called Linford Wood.

Thank you so much. Really glad you enjoy the little films. I have not much experimented with flash on mushrooms. I don't know quite how to say this without sounding silly, but here goes: A lot of that magical experience I seek from mushroom photography comes from the light being "just right" there and then. There is nothing wrong with flash and I use it when I do macro a lot, just not with mushrooms. You got me thinking now about the why, which is great 😊 Thank you.

Oh interesting, I get what you mean! I went out today but it's been so dry, no luck finding a single one, but I am going to try no flash, much less to carry also!. I get if I go our to try bird photography I'll end up surrounded by them 😂

@@BMadPhoto Isn't that always the case 🤣

Thank you

Thank you so much George

It is an amazing place with lots of different wildlife and summer visitors. One of my "happy" places :-) Here is more on the ponies if you are interested: www.theparkstrust.com/our-work/wildlife-in-our-parks/konik-ponies/ And here is a bit more on the floodplains themselves: www.theparkstrust.com/parks/floodplain-forest-nature-reserve/

Thank you for the compliment. Glad you enjoyed the video. I find fast moving subjects tricky to stack, so when I need greater depth of field I just pull out a bit and later crop. All images in that video was taken on a slow burst.

@geireriknielsen9075 ah I see, thanks.

Excellent question, thank you so much. I am likely going to make a follow up video with some more relatively basic info, but the short answer for local(ish) wildlife where they are somewhat used to people is simply: Wear something toned down in earth colours. This typically is brown or green. You certainly don't need a gillie suit to get some nice shots of sparrows. The most important is not to scare them by making lots of noise and walking briskly towards your subject. Attitude and approach is more important than what you wear in most cases.

Takk og takk. Jakken er veldig bra den :-) God og varm. Den va bellig og :-D

Thank you so much Sandip

Thank you so much Ruth

Thank you so much Sandip, very much appreciated