Enjoyable video. Here’s a comfort tip for you. I pack a rolled up camping map strapped to my bag, or just rolled up and slung over my shoulder with a bit of cord. It insulates me from cold, damp or wet conditions and added bonus also pads my hands and knees when forced to wait for the shot as required for damsel fly captures. Love your channel, keep up the good work.
I've not had much luck with damselflies. Very skittish. There's some wetlands at the local dog park that are frequented by dragonflies. They tend to hover above the reeds and occasionally cross the horizon into clear blue sky which is my only chance for the autofocus to nail them in flight. I've managed a couple of amazingly clean and detailed photos for an all-in-one small sensor bridge camera. Fascinating little creatures. I can easily fill the whole afternoon chasing them around.
Sounds like you're doing everything right to get those shots! I think I was super lucky fining a big group of them in one location like that but it still took a lot of patience and paying attention to the different perches they used more often so I was ready to shoot when they landed. It does help of course having a faster camera!
Quick tip get yourself a camouflaged shirt you'll find they don't get spooked as quickly when you move to get the shot. They've got excellent eyesight so a big bright lump moving will scare any insect.😁
Great video! As an R5 owner I’d love to know more about how you use focus bracketing as I still haven’t worked it out. How do you know how many images to take and what the increment should be?
It's a new feature to me so tbh I've been using guesswork so far and just double checking that the shots have enough focus points by zooming in on back of camera. If I'm at a wide aperture I'll use 20+
@@smiffy5467 Yes I have seen the video and also understood some ! I am sorry that I asked this question. I come from Austria and do not understand 100% what he says with this dialect.
Thank you for watching! For most of these images I shot in burst mode so I can increase my chances of getting a good shot, but not all of them were focus stacked -- some of them didn't really need it, in my opinion. I hope that helps!
Thanks Andrew, I do like the processing you did there, very subtle and effective . Did you use the auto focus stacking mode on your camera, I have not tried that yet?
I'm not sure if this is asking too much but I would love to see how you manage constantly moving antennae. Every focus stack I've done, Photoshop tends to add too many or not the correct feelers/antennae from the insect. I just end up tossing the entire stack because I don't know how to edit it. Do you have any tips for this?
Hi Andrew, I have tried a few times to capture damsel flies but never succeeded, they are so fast and don’t sit too long. I wondered, when using live view did you also use manual focus to capture them ? I find when using my live view that it takes too long to make focus, far too long to catch those little torags lol.. Your photos were excellent too, think I will just need to sit down at the side of my next pond and wait patiently. Loved the video, thanks for sharing 😁👍
Thanks Duncan! Patience is certainly the key I found. I stayed in this spot for a good few hours for a handful of photos. I did use auto focus for this even in live view as it's much quicker to focus on a mirrorless camera like the r5.
I love what you do, but I am color blind, and can’t do any of the sophisticated editing. But I also feel it is not necessary. Surely by now our cameras can produce an honest representation of reality. Sure, white balance and exposure may need tweaking, but colors? I prefer a representation of reality, rather than what we prefer to see. But, … this comes down to rather deep and philosophical discussions about photography.
First of all, thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to comment. I'd never really considered the process from a colour blind perspective and obviously without that frame of reference myself I can't imagine what it must be like. You raise an interesting point on editing though. Personally I like to make sure my images are 'honest' (I don't photoshop in fake skies etc) and like to think I add my own desired enhancements of what's there. But I also don't pretend that my images are 'straight out of camera' and I like to show my process so people can see what I've done to my shots. I think honesty in that sense can go a long way in photography.
Just wanted to extend a thank you - since watching your videos I've gotten back into macro and even tried my 1st focus stack series
Another enjoyable and useful video. Thx.
You cant beat nature. It's amazing.
Couldn't agree more!
Oh boy! I haven't decided yet if it's more enjoyable or useful 😊 Thanks a lot.
Thanks for watching!
Fantastic photos. That red insect looked very sweet!
Thanks so much!
Enjoyable video. Here’s a comfort tip for you. I pack a rolled up camping map strapped to my bag, or just rolled up and slung over my shoulder with a bit of cord. It insulates me from cold, damp or wet conditions and added bonus also pads my hands and knees when forced to wait for the shot as required for damsel fly captures. Love your channel, keep up the good work.
It does take patience but I like your comment about getting at one with nature in one spot
Enjoyed your journey today and the post processing, Thanks
Thank you!
Inspired me to make video about macro photography you're good at it
Really enjoying your content on macro photo.
Thank you!!
Love your videos man...
Another great video
Thanks John!
The little thing that you said is quite cute is a Soldier Beetle Andrew. 😊😊There's always one smart arse! 😁😁Lovely video as usual.
A soldier beetle! I'll remember that. I think it had a very cute little look to it. Great fun to shoot. Thanks for watching!
I've not had much luck with damselflies. Very skittish.
There's some wetlands at the local dog park that are frequented by dragonflies. They tend to hover above the reeds and occasionally cross the horizon into clear blue sky which is my only chance for the autofocus to nail them in flight. I've managed a couple of amazingly clean and detailed photos for an all-in-one small sensor bridge camera. Fascinating little creatures. I can easily fill the whole afternoon chasing them around.
Sounds like you're doing everything right to get those shots! I think I was super lucky fining a big group of them in one location like that but it still took a lot of patience and paying attention to the different perches they used more often so I was ready to shoot when they landed. It does help of course having a faster camera!
Always enjoy your videos and the harmonic appreciative vibe. But it would be cool to see you do more "super macro".
Thanks Ian, that's something I'd like to do more of too!
The red insect was a Soldier Beetle and the white flower was Mouse Ear… 👍
Excellent knowledge, thank you!!
Quick tip get yourself a camouflaged shirt you'll find they don't get spooked as quickly when you move to get the shot. They've got excellent eyesight so a big bright lump moving will scare any insect.😁
Nice Vid!
Thanks!
Great video! As an R5 owner I’d love to know more about how you use focus bracketing as I still haven’t worked it out. How do you know how many images to take and what the increment should be?
It's a new feature to me so tbh I've been using guesswork so far and just double checking that the shots have enough focus points by zooming in on back of camera. If I'm at a wide aperture I'll use 20+
Hey, could you show what photos and how you took to photostack? I mean ESP the Focus and aparature.
Your photos look so good ! Do you shoot in burst mode and do you stack the photos ? Please more of the macro photography
He said he was shooting in bursts and used focus bracketing. Focus stacking at 9:46
Did you watch and listen?
@@smiffy5467 Yes I have seen the video and also understood some ! I am sorry that I asked this question. I come from Austria and do not understand 100% what he says with this dialect.
Thank you for watching! For most of these images I shot in burst mode so I can increase my chances of getting a good shot, but not all of them were focus stacked -- some of them didn't really need it, in my opinion. I hope that helps!
@@AndrewLanxonPhotography thank you :)
Thanks Andrew, I do like the processing you did there, very subtle and effective . Did you use the auto focus stacking mode on your camera, I have not tried that yet?
Thanks Robert! I did use that feature yes. It's a new one to me but it's proven useful so far.
I'm not sure if this is asking too much but I would love to see how you manage constantly moving antennae. Every focus stack I've done, Photoshop tends to add too many or not the correct feelers/antennae from the insect. I just end up tossing the entire stack because I don't know how to edit it. Do you have any tips for this?
You use a canon full frame r5? And the lens is it a canon 100
That's right, an R5 and the RF 100mm macro. Thanks for watching!
Hi Andrew, I have tried a few times to capture damsel flies but never succeeded, they are so fast and don’t sit too long. I wondered, when using live view did you also use manual focus to capture them ? I find when using my live view that it takes too long to make focus, far too long to catch those little torags lol.. Your photos were excellent too, think I will just need to sit down at the side of my next pond and wait patiently. Loved the video, thanks for sharing 😁👍
Thanks Duncan! Patience is certainly the key I found. I stayed in this spot for a good few hours for a handful of photos. I did use auto focus for this even in live view as it's much quicker to focus on a mirrorless camera like the r5.
I love what you do, but I am color blind, and can’t do any of the sophisticated editing. But I also feel it is not necessary. Surely by now our cameras can produce an honest representation of reality. Sure, white balance and exposure may need tweaking, but colors? I prefer a representation of reality, rather than what we prefer to see. But, … this comes down to rather deep and philosophical discussions about photography.
First of all, thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to comment. I'd never really considered the process from a colour blind perspective and obviously without that frame of reference myself I can't imagine what it must be like. You raise an interesting point on editing though. Personally I like to make sure my images are 'honest' (I don't photoshop in fake skies etc) and like to think I add my own desired enhancements of what's there. But I also don't pretend that my images are 'straight out of camera' and I like to show my process so people can see what I've done to my shots. I think honesty in that sense can go a long way in photography.
How many focus points did you use for your focus stacking?
Hi Barbara, I think I used about 15 in total. Thanks for watching!
My macro lens already has too shallow depth of field, i keep having to focus stack its annoying.