Misty Morning Macro Photography - Macro Walks ep5
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Join me for a morning Macro Photography walk on a rainy day, searching for damselflies and other sleeping insects.
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Gear used in this video:
📷 Fujifilm X-H2
🔎 Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO
🔦 Nikon SB-900 Flash with Cygnustech Diffuser
Filmed on:
📷 Lumix DC-G91
🔎 Olympus 12-60mm f/2.8 pro
Music: 'Smirr' by Tobias Tinker, used with permission.
#macrophotography #insectphotography #wildlife 
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The sleeping bee shots are amazing
Every one of your videos I watch seem to be a masterclass in Macro Photography! Those Dam Zel Flies can be pretty elusive! Keep up the amazing content.
Another incredible video Alexis, simply stunning macros. Keep up the great work, thanks for sharing with us. Cheers, Robert.
I love your macro photography ,,thank you for your time you spend on the this video
Cold misty mornings are my favourite time for photos.
The insects are calm or covered in dew. You get great shots.
Thanks for the video. Take care.
Another great video and fabulous shots.
Absolutely stunning!
Wonderful photographs. I particularly liked the image with the refracted flower captured in the raindrops. Inspired.
your work is incredible!
Please show your photos a few seconds longer. They are so awesome, and I love to really absorb them. They are worth showing! Don't be ashamed 😉
This has been a nice walk, thank you.
Lovely video and nice pictures!
Just come across your Chanel and I must say your shots are outstanding you just got another subscriber
7:04 Bro what a shot!!
👍🏼👌🏻😍😎💪🏻🙌🏻❤️🔥
I think creating and experiencing this landscape and adventure must be more entertaining than watching a RUclips video
Как всегда очень круто! ждем видео с техническими пояснениями таких съемок
WOW 👏👏 amazing shots. I'm just sitting and observing the beauty of your work and nature.
Beautiful video! Keep it up! Seeing your passion about Photography and and nature/insects makes your videos really special!
Wonderful! Educational! Inspiring! Also relaxing and fun to watch. Keep up this great work, I always look forward to new videos.
Amazing shots (with the bee from the side being my favourite) as per your usual. Keep up the good work.
Amazing bee shots. Great video
Sorry you missed the damselflies. I am no expert, but in my recent outings, i have noticed they are more sun seeking. If the clouds pass in front of the sun, they disappear. I love your work. Thank you for sharing!! ☮️💟
Very nice. The sleeping bee made my day. Thanks.
You are doing amazing! Keep up the good work ❤🙌🏽
Amazing images, your results are always so inspirational, thank you.,
i love
Some very nice photos
Incredible images. Inspirational
Amazing photos as always. Your videos always inspire me to go out and try to improve my macro photography. Thank you for posting
raining here today - inspired now to take a walk!
hell yeah
Your videos are simly great. A joy to view. Inspiring as well as informativ! Thank you very much for your work. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany
Amazing as always!!!
Hi Alexis,
I really love your content; amazing images!
Could you explain, or maybe make a video about, how you process your focus stacks? Which software(s) do you use? Thanks!
Thanks! I will definitely work on a post processing video soon, as it seems like a very requested subject.. I use Zerene Stacker for processing stacks.
Amazing shots! I recently got into photography and I've discovered just how fun macro photography is! Keep up the great work
Excellent video as usual
Very nice shots 📸
I like your Videos and learn new thinks
Absolutely stunning. I could watch these videos for ages- thank you! Would you ever do a peek behind the curtain to show how you actually create the final images? Cheers and atb from Norway
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy them! I'm planning on doing a video on my editing workflow at some point soon for sure
amazing shots
Loved all your work amazing
You are acing it mate. I always look forward to your videos and they are all very very pleasing to see. Hope you get the Dam(n)selfly soon :)
These are great videos. ❤
The white flowers belong to the Achillea millefolium complex - Common yarrow / Gewöhnliche Schafgarbe
Nice photographs 👍🙏
There is a place near me, where there are a lot of blue dragonflies. Tomorrow morning I will try to photograph them perhaps with a dewdrop.
Knocked it out of the park again. NatGeo give this man a contract ^^
Your photos are stunning - an inspiration - I am going out to see if I can do anything like as well 🙂!!
Your channel needs to be in 4K for this wonderful output ... Not everybody views on a phone!
I would love to do my videos in 4k and my camera is capable of it, sadly my laptop isn't powerful enough to edit 4k footage though so I have to wait until I can get a better laptop or pc
Amazing
beautiful, how do you manage to do focus stacking with a manual lens?
Excellent shots. I haven't had much joy with stacking, so I'm wondering if you have time to answer a few questions:
1) How do you manage to get large stacks with the SB-900 without dark frames and/or inconsistent exposures? (I use the same flash with Nikon Z50 and can't get more than three or four shots - even at only three frames per second - before the flash power becomes unreliable. Even worse with a Godox TT350 and V350). I'm guessing it may have something to do with your choice of ISO and aperture settings.
2) How do you process the stacks? In- camera, Photoshop or dedicated software like Zerene?
3) How much manual touch-up work is required after the initial automated stack?
4) Why do you use relatively large stacks for small subjects like the weevil?
In any case, whatever your techniques, the results are very impressive! 🙂
Please give more time for your stunning photos to look in the video.
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Impressive images and fine vid - music a plus. Others might be tempted to spray mist their own droplets, but the real thing is so much better - kudos for that. Good theme about finding subjects despite changing plans. Do you ever capture specimens for indoor shoots?
Thanks so much! No I always shoot outside in the field, occasionally I will catch a subject to get some identification photos but that's the most.
Really great shots and great video! How do you do automatic focus bracketing with a manual focus lens? Thanks!
Sumamente interesante. Que gran paciencia y dedicacion
imagine just chilling on a flower being still tired from night+wet from morning due and some random dude walks over to wake you up with 20 flashbangs 🤣💥💥💥💥⚡⚡⚡✨📸
super nice work! love how the flash have a build in LED to focus? or how does it work?
🤣🤣🤣
Must be quite a shock 🤣🤣 Though luckily most insects aren't disturbed much by flash.. I have a mini headlamp strapped to my flash as a focusing light, but some flashes like the godox v860iii have built in led focusing lights too
@@naturefolddo you know if the modeling light on the 860iii works well enough through a diffuser? Might be a significant battery drain.
@@naturefold FLASH OUUUUUT!!! 😋✨✨✨
Well done for the German pronunciation. It is spot on.
He's in Germany ...
I've lived my whole life here in Germany so that helps yeah :)
@@naturefold Congrats on the excellent English pronunciation then instead xD
There's probably a story there, but I only just discovered your wonderful videos, so I'm not sure if you ever talked about that or not. In my experience it's definitely rare though, as is your talent. 😊
Lovely images brother....what is the gears you used?
The flower reflection shot is insane!
I also love how knowledgeable you are, how did you get this far, did you study anything in regards to ecology or animal studies?
Nice shots.
Thank you for your videos.
Is it possible to take similar photos with same setup but on low fps camera (for example 5 fps ) ?
2 questions: what lens do you use, and will you ever make a video on your processing and stacking methods?
Great video, very informative.I use a Fujifilm xt4 and I'm curious to know how to do handheld focus stack with flash where each image taken in the stack is lit with flash. I tried using burst mode and flash in manual mode at 1/128 but even with the lowest power it didn't recycle fast enough. I tried multi on the flash but not all frames were lit. Please help as i see you are using Fujifilm as well and I see your flash fires multiple times in your handheld stack...can you elaborate on the flash & camera settings you use to have the flash fire multiple times with each frame being lit. Thanks in advance.
Hi Alexis, really been enjoying your videos and I had a question regarding continuous flash settings. The stacks in this video are mostly 40~50 shots. What flash power and at what FPS are you shooting? I've just picked up a used Godox V860 III. I've seen 1/16th power recommended quite a few times, though that only gets me 11 to 17 shots at either 10 or 7fps before it misses frames. Shooting down at 1/32 +0.5 power and I've been able to get over 200+ shots without the flash missing at 10fps. I was curious as to what power and FPS you use and do you just create the stack slower that you've got enough overlapping shots if the flash doesn't recycle quick enough for every shot? Cheers, keep up the great content!
Please please please, make a video of how you stack. What settings, which lens, what flashsettings and how you stack and what software.
Hi, when you do continously shooting, do you move the focus point by turning the focus lens or by moving you carmera? Thanks. I assumed that you have fix manual focus
Awsome video man I have 1 question how do you get these pictures hand helt
It takes some practice but if you're able to keep steady enough it's not too difficult. Using a flash helps a lot too as it freezes any small movements like camera shake.
This is an excellent channel! Would you be able to tell me the name of that device you have attached to your camera?
It is a diffuser that makes the light from my flash much softer which creates softer reflections and shadows
How do you shoot stacks on your XH 2 with the manual focus 65mm Laowa lens? Very enjoyable film😊
Film???
I shoot photos for stacking manually and change focus by moving the camera forward slowly while shooting a burst. I've shown the technique a bit in previous videos but I'm planning on doing a dedicated one going more in depth.
@@naturefold Looking forward to it!
When you keep the light turned on behind the diffusor does it affect the image or does the flash ignore it?
Lovely video as always
The flash is so much brighter than the continuous light that it doesn't really affect the final image, it just helps with focusing when it's dark.
@@naturefold Thanks for the info!
Do you know of any Nikon cameras that can photostack like that?
Do you have prints available for sale? I would put that Beetle with refracted flowers piece on my wall with immense haste
Any tips for hand-held focus stacking?
Keeping the camera and subject stable in relation to one another is the most important thing, whether it's by resting the camera on the ground or holding the subject in your left hand and bracing the camera with one finger..
How can you shoot 30+ photos from hand for photo stack?
I wonder why I even try to do macro photography. Some photos are okay, but 9 out of 10 don't even come close to this quality.
Im not against using focus stacking but de majority of people dont have this equipment for macro cuz its expensive. Maybe showing how to make macro with a simple camera and a simple macro lens could be more interesting. The majority of people that wants to start in macrophotography doesnt have this equipment or the level to use it.
Expensive gear absolutely isn't required for my way of shooting, I focus stack manually which is possible with basically any camera and macro lens setup. The main difference is the fast burst shooting and higher resolution sensor, what's much more important is a flash and a good diffuser. But I'd definitely like to do a video using really cheap gear as well, just to show it more clearly.