Brilliant ideas,ordering a clamp and bar on payday, will have a good go at this. Thanks Andew, loved your images and presentation as always. Take care and have a wonderful day.
Another considered, thoughtfully put together video. Your calm, slow approach breaks down the process with each element given equal gravity….. love it!!!
Wow, this video really opened my eyes to the beauty of dead flowers! 🌸 The textures and colors are captured so beautifully. I loved seeing the macro setup-it's amazing how accessible it makes those detailed shots. The lighting and composition tips were super helpful, and the final images were just stunning. It's incredible how much beauty there is in something often overlooked. Truly inspiring!
Not only overlooked, Wendy, but actually thrown away. People buy dried flower arrangements, but rarely keep bouquets when they start to wilt. There's generally a good macro image in any natural product throughout it's lifecycle.
Decay is definitely a subject worth photographing. The three poppy bulbs are enchanting. I have done quite a lot of my tabletop macros using simple torchlight. Typically 5500°K.
It's amazing how unsophisticated a table-top setup can be - it's goes to prove that the gear is largely unimportant and it often takes a lot more skill and imagination to operate without the gear and still get good images.
@@AndyBanner So very true. In most cases the skill of the photographer is the important part. You take the gear that's suited and that you like and know. Otherwise whatever happens to be at your disposal. My black shaken out t-shirt - straight off my back - has quite often served as my backdrop for macros, leaving me bending over my camera bare belly. A hideous sight! But I do have better stuff on shelf if I really need it. 😁 For example - deep, deep black felt used otherwise in cinemas. The blackest black you can actually buy.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! I love hearing all you have to say about photography!!! The tips you share are well appreciated, and I hope you don't change your style or hold anything back!!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Lovely images, Andy. Thanks for another very interesting video. Love your style. Inspires me to get out the macro lens and shoot some of the dead and dried up flowers in my garden. It’s the end of a very hot summer here in east Tennessee USA.
Everything has it's own beauty, we just have to look for it and be open to it, some cracking shots Andy and wonderful post processing. Take care, Steve.
I had one of those gorilla pod things once. I left the comfort of my warm living room one winter night to shoot something outside. All shots were blurry. I discovered that it was because the tripod joints were clicking as they contracted due to cooling down. Nice shooting as usual. I shall give it a go 👍🏻
I hate Gorilla Pods. The plastic ones are shockingly badly built - designed to fail. There are very expensive metal ones that probably don't fracture, but I am not about to try these. I wouldn't trust a moderately heavy camera to one. I use them for lights and have used them for my Osmo Pocket in the past - would never put my Olympus on one.
Dead plants are some of my favorite things to photograph. They're everywhere if you have eyes to see. Especially during the winter months when there's not much else going on. :)
@@AndyBanner I'd save it until you can't get to sleep Andy!! BTW I just used your link to get one of those tripod boom arms. Neither of my tripods has a fully adjustable centre column and I always find myself needing one. This looks like it fits the bill perfectly 🙂
Thanks, Nick. I have had the arm for a couple of months and intended initially to use it for talking heads videos as I could mount my teleprompter, key light and even a second camera angle on just one stand, but I realised I hate talking heads videos (will probabaly do some despite this). Found a great use for it with this work though and I think my demonstration of how utterly brilliant it is for this kind of work shows it's value.
A wonderful and interesting video Andrew. I traded my 30mm macro lens in for the 60mm macro. The 60mm macro is a wonderful lens, but I miss the simplicity of the 30mm macro. I think I'll be giving MPB or Wex a look for a replacement. Keep up the good work 👍
Hi Andy. Nice video, man. I can't type much because I had surgery on my hand yesterday. I happen to be doing the same thing, photographing dried flowers. I don't know where my comment on the previous video went? Antoine
I think I am the only one until I see your videos. I take a lot of pic of dead trees and other things. There was a pine tree that was brown not green. There were also plants that had passed there prime. Thank you Ben
Sadly my partner doesn't appreciate the beauty of dead flowers lying around the home. 😂. I think they are amazing. Thanks for the video I enjoyed it. 👏
"Character" might be the word you were looking for to describe "old" things to photograph "Contemporary" maybe another ---- subjects others don't see or 'notice' as a photograph. You are very good at that. Or as I call it ; the little photos instead every big picture Love your little studio ---- really shows what can be done; bit like video where you just window light. Onion was it ?
Thanks. Yes, onion and fig. I should do more of this kind of work and as winter is approaching, I expect there will be fewer opportunities to be outside.
You have a fantastic mind, andrew . There are so many mundane photography channels, and then there's yours where you show art and not with just random photos with music but your thought process behind creating it. You're definitely one cool m#$[er f>
Even if English is not your first language, I think it should be clear to anyone who has enough of a grasp of the language to be able to write "You spend too much time talking" that doing so is extremely rude. Moreover, your personal opinion on his style of presenting his channel is completely irrelevant. One cannot go around RUclips watching videos, and whenever some aspect of it is not what you personally like, feel you are obliged to let the creator know that you don't like that specific aspect. What makes your opinion so important that you feel you just have to let the creator know about it? It is exactly his presentation style that I find interesting, it is the reason why I watch his videos. There are thousands of other channels on RUclips where the creators are much less personal, much more robotic as if they are reading a textbook. You have all the right in the world to go and enjoy those channels. But it is really bad style to feel you just have to tell the creator that 'he talks too much'. Myself and I am sure all of his subscribers appreciate that there is a person chatting with us as if we are having a human conversation, a cup of coffee together while talking about photography. If you don't like it, that is fine, too, but to feel you have to let the creator know you don't like it? That is unacceptably rude.
@@APlayerinVRwell said that fellow! To critisise on a style that he creates merely shows his nanoscopical sized brain cell off well. Its quite simple, if it doesnt suit him, just move along. Andrew, yet again you show off some ideas. The commentary amplifies the thinking behind it which only adds to it. Keep up the good work fella, and it was nice adding the other photos at the end showing a glimpse of other ideas.
It's the talking that makes it more brilliant. In this day and age where everyone is experiencing ADHD with their content, this guy gives the middle finger to it . I would recommend youtube shorts, tik tok, or whatever else has 3 second videos.. those seem more your speed.
Always be yourself don’t change for anyone you have a great channel
Thank you. Very kind.
You are a true artist.
Very kind. I don't agree, but kind all the same. :-)
Great dramatic photos ! I like ! 🥀🥀🥀
Thank you.
Brilliant ideas,ordering a clamp and bar on payday, will have a good go at this. Thanks Andew, loved your images and presentation as always. Take care and have a wonderful day.
Cheers, Wolf
Lovely images I love to shoot the flowers when they are nearly gone have a lot of texture and shapes
The textures of plants remain fascinating throughout all stages of their existence.
Stunningly beautiful photographs Andrew
Thank you.
I like your perspectives on photography.....and life, there is no need to chase some conceptual perfection, just appreciate what there is in the now.
Thank you.
Even the dying flowers can shine again in your pictures！！！
Thank you. Hope you get some interest in the boom arm. It is SO useful in this scenario.
Another considered, thoughtfully put together video. Your calm, slow approach breaks down the process with each element given equal gravity….. love it!!!
I never thought of taking pictures of dead flowers, i missed a trick. Thank you 😊
Wow, this video really opened my eyes to the beauty of dead flowers! 🌸 The textures and colors are captured so beautifully. I loved seeing the macro setup-it's amazing how accessible it makes those detailed shots. The lighting and composition tips were super helpful, and the final images were just stunning. It's incredible how much beauty there is in something often overlooked. Truly inspiring!
Not only overlooked, Wendy, but actually thrown away. People buy dried flower arrangements, but rarely keep bouquets when they start to wilt. There's generally a good macro image in any natural product throughout it's lifecycle.
Decay is definitely a subject worth photographing. The three poppy bulbs are enchanting. I have done quite a lot of my tabletop macros using simple torchlight. Typically 5500°K.
It's amazing how unsophisticated a table-top setup can be - it's goes to prove that the gear is largely unimportant and it often takes a lot more skill and imagination to operate without the gear and still get good images.
@@AndyBanner So very true. In most cases the skill of the photographer is the important part. You take the gear that's suited and that you like and know. Otherwise whatever happens to be at your disposal.
My black shaken out t-shirt - straight off my back - has quite often served as my backdrop for macros, leaving me bending over my camera bare belly.
A hideous sight!
But I do have better stuff on shelf if I really need it. 😁 For example - deep, deep black felt used otherwise in cinemas. The blackest black you can actually buy.
Lovely photos! I too adore photographing dead/dying flowers 😊 another great video!
Thanks so much! 😊
Definitely should have drawn some face's on the poppy seed head's lol
Yeah, but Phil Collins as we remember him or Phil Collins now?
@@AndyBanner gotta be how we remember, Phil Collins.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! I love hearing all you have to say about photography!!! The tips you share are well appreciated, and I hope you don't change your style or hold anything back!!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Haha, Thank you. I could waffle for Europe, so plenty gets cut out! :-)
Lovely images, Andy. Thanks for another very interesting video. Love your style. Inspires me to get out the macro lens and shoot some of the dead and dried up flowers in my garden. It’s the end of a very hot summer here in east Tennessee USA.
Everything has it's own beauty, we just have to look for it and be open to it, some cracking shots Andy and wonderful post processing. Take care, Steve.
Thanks, Steve.
The beauty of imperfection. Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
I had one of those gorilla pod things once. I left the comfort of my warm living room one winter night to shoot something outside. All shots were blurry. I discovered that it was because the tripod joints were clicking as they contracted due to cooling down. Nice shooting as usual. I shall give it a go 👍🏻
I hate Gorilla Pods. The plastic ones are shockingly badly built - designed to fail. There are very expensive metal ones that probably don't fracture, but I am not about to try these. I wouldn't trust a moderately heavy camera to one. I use them for lights and have used them for my Osmo Pocket in the past - would never put my Olympus on one.
Beautiful work with the 180 and the inserts, the photos too of course!
Dead plants are some of my favorite things to photograph. They're everywhere if you have eyes to see. Especially during the winter months when there's not much else going on. :)
One of the advantages of not having a green thumb I suppose!
You found the beauty in the dead flowers. Kudos. Thank you.
brings that old Alice Cooper song to mind - "I Love the Dead". which I found it's best not to sing out loud while wearing headphones on the bus...
haha. Be well, Nick. Need to watch your video too.
@@AndyBanner I'd save it until you can't get to sleep Andy!! BTW I just used your link to get one of those tripod boom arms. Neither of my tripods has a fully adjustable centre column and I always find myself needing one. This looks like it fits the bill perfectly 🙂
Thanks, Nick. I have had the arm for a couple of months and intended initially to use it for talking heads videos as I could mount my teleprompter, key light and even a second camera angle on just one stand, but I realised I hate talking heads videos (will probabaly do some despite this). Found a great use for it with this work though and I think my demonstration of how utterly brilliant it is for this kind of work shows it's value.
A wonderful and interesting video Andrew. I traded my 30mm macro lens in for the 60mm macro. The 60mm macro is a wonderful lens, but I miss the simplicity of the 30mm macro. I think I'll be giving MPB or Wex a look for a replacement. Keep up the good work 👍
I have both. The advantage of the 30mm is you can get a 1:1.25 magnification but you need to be stupidly close.
Hi Andy.
Nice video, man.
I can't type much because I had surgery on my hand yesterday.
I happen to be doing the same thing, photographing dried flowers.
I don't know where my comment on the previous video went?
Antoine
Hope you're recovering well, Antoine.
Regarding a missing comment, there's nothing in my "pending" box.
I think I am the only one until I see your videos. I take a lot of pic of dead trees and other things. There was a pine tree that was brown not green. There were also plants that had passed there prime. Thank you Ben
Cheers, Ben. I tend to photograph a lot of things that are beyond their prime. That's often where the real character is
hello
an excellent idea to photograph the faded flowers and the result is superb; thank you for sharing
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Thanks you
Sadly my partner doesn't appreciate the beauty of dead flowers lying around the home. 😂. I think they are amazing. Thanks for the video I enjoyed it. 👏
Show her the video and tell here that there's life beyond death.... 🙂
I'm crinkle and old, I just wish I photographed as good. love your videos! love your photographs.
Haha. What you mean is that you have character. Plenty of photographs of characters.
Stunningly beautiful photos x
Glad you like them!
Good stuff!
"Character" might be the word you were looking for to describe "old" things to photograph
"Contemporary" maybe another ---- subjects others don't see or 'notice' as a photograph. You are very good at that. Or as I call it ; the little photos instead every big picture
Love your little studio ---- really shows what can be done; bit like video where you just window light. Onion was it ?
Thanks. Yes, onion and fig. I should do more of this kind of work and as winter is approaching, I expect there will be fewer opportunities to be outside.
You have a fantastic mind, andrew . There are so many mundane photography channels, and then there's yours where you show art and not with just random photos with music but your thought process behind creating it. You're definitely one cool m#$[er f>
Cheers, Eric
Ironically, as I watched this video the Rolling Stones somg "Dead Flowers" came across on my radio.
lol
@AndyBanner Just goes to show that if you're observant enough, the universe presents one with all manner of ironies and occasional sarcasm. Lol!
Great ideas. However, You spend to much time talking. Other wise a good video!
Even if English is not your first language, I think it should be clear to anyone who has enough of a grasp of the language to be able to write "You spend too much time talking" that doing so is extremely rude. Moreover, your personal opinion on his style of presenting his channel is completely irrelevant. One cannot go around RUclips watching videos, and whenever some aspect of it is not what you personally like, feel you are obliged to let the creator know that you don't like that specific aspect. What makes your opinion so important that you feel you just have to let the creator know about it? It is exactly his presentation style that I find interesting, it is the reason why I watch his videos. There are thousands of other channels on RUclips where the creators are much less personal, much more robotic as if they are reading a textbook. You have all the right in the world to go and enjoy those channels. But it is really bad style to feel you just have to tell the creator that 'he talks too much'. Myself and I am sure all of his subscribers appreciate that there is a person chatting with us as if we are having a human conversation, a cup of coffee together while talking about photography. If you don't like it, that is fine, too, but to feel you have to let the creator know you don't like it? That is unacceptably rude.
Rude
@@APlayerinVRwell said that fellow!
To critisise on a style that he creates merely shows his nanoscopical sized brain cell off well. Its quite simple, if it doesnt suit him, just move along.
Andrew, yet again you show off some ideas. The commentary amplifies the thinking behind it which only adds to it. Keep up the good work fella, and it was nice adding the other photos at the end showing a glimpse of other ideas.
I am sorry you don't like my presentation style - you'd hate it if I was awful at editing out all the guff that gets cut... :-)
It's the talking that makes it more brilliant. In this day and age where everyone is experiencing ADHD with their content, this guy gives the middle finger to it .
I would recommend youtube shorts, tik tok, or whatever else has 3 second videos.. those seem more your speed.