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You are a great teacher. Thanks for the great tutorial.

Thanks. Best tutorial I've ever watched. I learned so much. I've always wanted to know how to do this. You explain it brilliantly.

You are destroying true photography with your electronic forgeries.

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Excelent. I've learned a lot with this video. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the explanation!

I've been shooting landscapes, seascapes, and some wildlife for most of my photography days. I've always been intrigued with macro photography, but have never really invested the time necessary looking for compositions and taking all the steps to make a good image. I sold a couple lenses I have never used all that much and bought an 80mm macro lens. As I'm waiting for it to be delivered, I've been searching for good quality content related to what I want to do-macro and light painting. Then, today, I found this video. I appreciate both your photography style and the way you explained in such great detail the post-processing steps. I'm sure your views of this specific tutorial will go up a lot as I follow along with your post-processing steps while I edit my own files! Thanks much for the inspiration!

Really great video.

Спасибо за видео! Для меня очень полезное.

Great video! I need to learn lightroom. Thanks very much, Tracey

Thank you very much. Very interesting. Tracey

I like how you've described how to light & photograph mushrooms, & then make them glow in such a manner that it encourages even beginners like me to have a go.

Cool

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Thank you for the video. It was fantastic!

Great video. Thank you very much.😁Tracey

Hahahah Thank you very much!😁

I love your sense of humour😁Thank you very much for the video

It looks like you are having fun. Im looking forward to playing too. Thank you

Love this. Thanks Tracey😊

I am so excited now that I have watched it. I can't wait to try these ideas. Thank you

Hello, what are the little stands with the colour sheets on called, cheers Carl

Excellent video great tips thanks for sharing

How do you get the flowers in the water sharp?

The detail captured of those mushroom heads using the torch is quite staggering! Just wondering....... ... can this same effect be achieved using a flashgun/trigger combination, where the flashgun has an attached diffuser? (I just Subscribed, this video is superb - thanks Oliver).

Thanks for your work, Oliver!

Thank you for your instruction ! You are a genius ! A practical person with a ton of common sense.

Ну зачем всем смотреть на твою рожу, лучше показывай больше процесс съёмки

Awesome work Oliver. Just Subscribed. Simple and easily accessible accessories to get 'that-Shot'! Definitely inspirational.

Super tutorial! I just didn't quite understand one thing: At the beginning, you use focus stacking to achieve a perfectly sharp scene from front to back. But then, when taking "illuminated" shots, you shoot at the same aperture but only with a single focus. When stacking the layers in Photoshop, these "illuminated" layers are blended together in "normal" mode, which means that besides the desired "illumination" in the masked area, they can also be blurred because the flashlight was focused only at one distance. So, I think for even sharper results, series of "illuminated" shots should be taken during focus stacking, always before refocusing on the next distance.

Just bought mine earlier today for $116 USD on Amazon... and then I saw your video. But at least it confirmed I made the right decision. While I did a bit of research on my own, the thing that initially sold me on this tripod is that Simon d'Entremont uses this model as his travel tripod. If it's good enough for him it most certainly is good enough for me. Nice video and review, and I enjoyed the outtakes. I like someone that doesn't take himself too seriously.

Wow Oliver, that’s awesome! I am in the process of getting started with Macro photography… I just setup a little studio/macro lab and this is going to be something I’ll attempt first…

love your videos, why don't you continue your channel?

Fabulous, I’d never have thought of that, I’ve got to try it. Thanks!

Perfect pict....

Nice & Smart...

Good review. I like that it’s 3 twist locks per leg instead of 4. I have a Benro with 4 twist locks per leg and it’s a nightmare. You might think That it’s just one extra twist, but it makes the last section very thin and three I can undo with one hand but the 4th one needs extra work. I’ve ordered one of these.

Thank you so much for your videos!!! You gave me back my mojo :D After six months with my camera sitting on my desk, i picked it up once again and I'm having a blast :D I hope one day you will continue to do this videos. Greetings from Schwäbische Alb

Thank you very much for your helpful tutorial and many greetings from Cologne/Germany

Really enjoyed this thank you! :)

Fantastic. Bravo Sir 👏👏

A great tutorial, I couldn't wait to try it. I don't have a macro lens and the only mushroom I found was a bit to old for light to shine through so I had to illuminate it from below. My light was too white and I had a lousy composition so had to 'move' my mushroom to a dead branch in PS. I photographed the same mushroom from 2 sides to duplicate it. It was a lot of post processing work which, with better planning, I could have done in camera, but I'm reasonably pleased with my first attempt.

You give good instruction using inexpensive equipment that most photographers already have. This is a good project for these dreary, winter months. Your beautiful images illustrate your good technique and creativity. I'm looking forward to trying this out. Another source of background images would be photographs or graphic art on an iPad.

Just got one. Thanks for the video.

Thank you so much. So useful and inspiring❣

Do you frame your own photos?

Bravo!! Thank you for sharing and teaching us!

Great video. If I edit using Lightroom,the image size reduces . How to preseve that ?

Thank you Oliver, very helpful!

You created a photostack to create more Depth of Field while containing the blurry background. Very clear. But when you shoot the mushrooms with light you do not take the shallow depth of field into account. Wouldn't it better to shoot with a more closed apperture while lighting the mushrooms to make sure the "glowing parts" are in focus as well? Otherwise you should refocus per mushroom. Not taking into account the shallow depth of field with the glowing mushrooms would ruin the photostack because you paint partly unfocussed glowing mushrooms over your sharp stack... or am I missing something?