Thanks for watching! Subscribe for more videos! More regular content from me in these places: 💌 newsletter: mwroll.com 🌄 instagram: instagram.com/mwroll 🌆 patreon: patreon.com/micaelwidell 🐦 twitter: twitter.com/micaelwidell 📷 my personal favorite macro lens: bit.ly/mwlaowa60 (I always buy Laowa lenses here - fast free shipping worldwide) Gear used in the video: - 150 mm: amzn.to/2L06SNh - 90 mm: amzn.to/2L9EyEY - 135 mm: amzn.to/2KZYLjS or amzn.to/2ukc3xf - unspecified: amzn.to/2N6TUL1 or ruclips.net/video/yFEJxuKD4HY/видео.html Most photos in the video were shot on this camera: amzn.to/2NJB7XA But the most recent photos I used my current workhorse for: amzn.to/2ulxqyq To make this video, I used this mic: amzn.to/2N4uCxj with this preamp: amzn.to/2KV9dt5 and this small video camera: amzn.to/2N5gIuW
I am sorry, but you seem to enjoy the free content without any care for the creators. How about you keep enjoying it and stop complaining about self promotion? If people would support artists more, maybe it wouldn’t be necessary. Your favorite RUclipsrs also need to eat
I appreciate your controlled pace of narration. The way of explaining things with an appropriate example was perfect. This video can be an example for others " the so called gurus of photography" who post videos on RUclips which are highly opinionated, dogmatic and cacophonic.
Rule #7 I usually follow, but when I first started taking photos I often took them at high noon on my lunch break. When it came to Portulaca, the flowers glowed so vibrantly in full sun that to this day it is one of my favorite photos. It was sheer serendipity because I knew very little about the best lighting techniques. The portulaca is at 4:39 in my Succulent Treasures video. Sometimes at just the right angle full sun can be used for a stained glass effect with certain flowers.
I actually find the image at 3:15 to be one of the strongest and most interesting compositionally in the set. The in-and-out of focus leaves provide lines that swirl around the flowers and help to frame the image. Shallow depth of field flower photography with an out-of-focus background and tack sharp flower is only one approach. It can be a bit one-dimensional if overdone. What if you were to include more backgrounds, fences, buildings, people walking past in flower photography? This is a different approach but would provide great context and open up possibilites.
inspirational! I think I need to be doing this! where I live there are flowers blooming all year round. it's clear this is where I need to start my Photography (retirement hobby).
I always lower the exposure compensation to -1 or -2 so that the true color of the flower is photographed. The sun tends to bleach out the colors of a flower....
Great tips, Michael. I would also suggest using a small diffuser if shade isn’t an option. You can use it to not only diffuse harsh light but to catch and direct the light onto the flower/subject.
It's not boring, simplicity is Beautiful. The Heart of Fashion about flower reflect on it. Good explanation as well. thank you !I will apply your tips when am taking flowers. Thank you very much for sharing your ideas!
Superb video! Very informative and no long drawn out explanations. Now all I need is a macro lens! I'm saving up!! I am a new subscriber and I've signed up for the newsletter. Thank you
I really like your style. It is pretty laid back. You give a Master video, just enough information and no extraneous guff. I'll watch this again and have subscribed to your channel. One question though: what is that great background jazz? It's a great choice: just enough to complement the video without being distracting. I could listen to it all day long. Thanks Micael
Thank you for your kind words. I think the song is called The Barrier by Rupert Sachs, I got the song from epidemicsound.com which is a site where youtubers can get background music.
Awesome tips, I must admit I didn't expect this video to be so instructive... and nice pictures! The Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 mkII is a real beast for flower photography too, great magnification and it throws everything in the background in a beautiful bokeh
Thanks for the awesome video! I bought my first camera today because i wanted to photograph flowers haha. They are so awesome. I'm not sure what all the settings mean yet but im sure I'll get better
This was a great video! Informative, concise and full of simple solutions to some of the most common problems. I can't believe I've never thought about just creating the shade with my own body! So simple and yet it's escaped me all this time. So thank you!
Also a tip , try to tell a Story about this Flower. What makes it special you selected it. Also keep in Mind Rules of Thirds , DoF and Compositing. It pleases the Eye of the Viewer.
I shoot flowers a lot and these are generally some good tips, but I don't fully agree with you on shooting in the shade. While you can definitely get great results in the shade, I often find that it can also result in quite dull looking photos. Personally I prefer shooting in either the morning or evening sun since you get a softer light at those times of the day that can give you beautiful results. You also get more contrast in sunlight. Although I would definitely advice against shooting in the mid-day sun as that generally gives you a very harsh light and hard shadows.
Great points, Micael! I like to use shade, too. I will often add a little flash fill on subject to bring it out of the background. If you do something like that, I would love to see your approach.
One of my problems with shooting flowers is failure to focus on the center of the flowers. Don't know if it is because of the lens, i.e. too short focal length, or too little light, or not enough color contrast, like in the case of pink color pedals?
That is very hard due to how light and optics work. You could try shooting from more distance, using a smaller aperture (bigger f-number) or focus stacking (search for my video about focus stacking).
I really like your photos. Do you do classes, arrange excursions etc? I have and old crappy macro lens but it would be interesting to get some hands-on tips from a pro before buying more stuff :)
Thanks Micael, after going through photos after a recent trip with my photography group to a botanical garden here in Utrecht and seeing many of them look like rubbish for the reasons you highlighted, this video came up in my suggested ones...like RUclips is reading my mind haha! Well done, clearly explained, really helpful.
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📷 my personal favorite macro lens: bit.ly/mwlaowa60 (I always buy Laowa lenses here - fast free shipping worldwide)
Gear used in the video:
- 150 mm: amzn.to/2L06SNh
- 90 mm: amzn.to/2L9EyEY
- 135 mm: amzn.to/2KZYLjS or amzn.to/2ukc3xf
- unspecified: amzn.to/2N6TUL1 or ruclips.net/video/yFEJxuKD4HY/видео.html
Most photos in the video were shot on this camera: amzn.to/2NJB7XA
But the most recent photos I used my current workhorse for:
amzn.to/2ulxqyq
To make this video, I used this mic: amzn.to/2N4uCxj with this preamp: amzn.to/2KV9dt5 and this small video camera: amzn.to/2N5gIuW
This is an example of a GOOD photography video. Lots of examples of bad and good photographs. No self-promoting gibberish. Thank you.
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So nice to find someone talking about this kind of flower photography as it's my favourite too.
I appreciate your controlled pace of narration. The way of explaining things with an appropriate example was perfect. This video can be an example for others " the so called gurus of photography" who post videos on RUclips which are highly opinionated, dogmatic and cacophonic.
Flower photography is incredibly beautiful. I normally don't care for it, but your photos have inspired me to think otherwise.
Rule #7 I usually follow, but when I first started taking photos I often took them at high noon on my lunch break. When it came to Portulaca, the flowers glowed so vibrantly in full sun that to this day it is one of my favorite photos. It was sheer serendipity because I knew very little about the best lighting techniques. The portulaca is at 4:39 in my Succulent Treasures video. Sometimes at just the right angle full sun can be used for a stained glass effect with certain flowers.
Creating B&W versions of the photos to diminish distractions is a great idea. Thanks! Wonderful video.
I actually find the image at 3:15 to be one of the strongest and most interesting compositionally in the set. The in-and-out of focus leaves provide lines that swirl around the flowers and help to frame the image. Shallow depth of field flower photography with an out-of-focus background and tack sharp flower is only one approach. It can be a bit one-dimensional if overdone. What if you were to include more backgrounds, fences, buildings, people walking past in flower photography? This is a different approach but would provide great context and open up possibilites.
If not for two of the flowers also being out of focus, and the grass seed head across the middle one, I might agree with you.
inspirational! I think I need to be doing this! where I live there are flowers blooming all year round. it's clear this is where I need to start my Photography (retirement hobby).
I always lower the exposure compensation to -1 or -2 so that the true color of the flower is photographed. The sun tends to bleach out the colors of a flower....
I'm not sure I ever got this much out of a RUclips video... this is exactly what I needed. Great tips and examples. Thank you!
Unless it's a tiny flower, I love my Zeiss Batis 85mm. Amazing tool for the job. My go to settings are usually ISO 100 and F2.8.
6:29 These tiny blue forest "fairies" are fantastically beautiful! Superior photos!
Thank you :)
Great tips, Michael. I would also suggest using a small diffuser if shade isn’t an option. You can use it to not only diffuse harsh light but to catch and direct the light onto the flower/subject.
Great tip!
It's not boring, simplicity is Beautiful. The Heart of Fashion about flower reflect on it.
Good explanation as well. thank you !I will apply your tips when am taking flowers.
Thank you very much for sharing your ideas!
Thank you. Tiny flowers are also one of my go to macro subjects. Your suggestions are a great help!
I usually took photos of flower with lots of leaves. Now I understand why some of it looked off. This video is very helpful. Thank you so much!
Nice shots. You opened my eyes on the B&W photography of the flowers.
Those little purple flowers are so beautiful, great images!
Pretty good tips and I learnt one or two tricks - playing with colours. Here is one from me, take photos of flowers in light rain...
Thank you for all your tips. I’m also a big fan of flower photography and I loved all your photos.
One of the better youtubes on photography. Useful and practical tips. Length of video is just about right. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent tips , loved the one about B n W when background is busy
very informative!!, always love to take pictures of flowers cause there's so many of them
Just found you here thanks so much for all this info , I do paint flowers, I take picture from them . This helps me tremendously. Please continue.
thank you! (ah! brings back memories of when i could crouch down like that without falling over ... & get up again elegantly('ish)!)
Ha Ha, at 90 I know know what you mean. I just blow up enlargement bigger, and crop.
Thanks for this great video. The music is very well chosen, just wonderful.
Excellent tip on the flat flowers, always enjoy your work and have learnt a lot from your past videos, thanks for posting this video.
Another gem from a very talented photographer. Thank you.
Great informational, chill, laid back video man
You just got a new subscriber
Good gide, well done job. Micael! Slowers and mushrooms - a big part of my interest in photography )
Thanks Micael. Very good sound tips!
Superb video! Very informative and no long drawn out explanations. Now all I need is a macro lens! I'm saving up!! I am a new subscriber and I've signed up for the newsletter. Thank you
I really enjoyed this video. More creative ideas and tips for me to follow.
Very good video, beautifully explained and i love all the links in the description.
I really like your style. It is pretty laid back. You give a Master video, just enough information and no extraneous guff. I'll watch this again and have subscribed to your channel. One question though: what is that great background jazz? It's a great choice: just enough to complement the video without being distracting. I could listen to it all day long. Thanks Micael
Thank you for your kind words. I think the song is called The Barrier by Rupert Sachs, I got the song from epidemicsound.com which is a site where youtubers can get background music.
Awesome tips, I must admit I didn't expect this video to be so instructive... and nice pictures! The Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 mkII is a real beast for flower photography too, great magnification and it throws everything in the background in a beautiful bokeh
love this lens too
I love photos like these, pretty flowers, simple little joys. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the awesome video! I bought my first camera today because i wanted to photograph flowers haha. They are so awesome. I'm not sure what all the settings mean yet but im sure I'll get better
Have fun!
Namaste from India.
I use either a point and shoot camera or my Android phone. 😊
Thanks for all your videos are very instructive and fun to watch. Regards from Chile
Wow the photos is so good, great photoshoot, thank you for the tips, it's very helpful
great job that inspires many of us
I did learn something I'll try. I will say absolutely yes to not taking pics of flowers on a sunny day. Soft light is best
This was a great video! Informative, concise and full of simple solutions to some of the most common problems. I can't believe I've never thought about just creating the shade with my own body! So simple and yet it's escaped me all this time. So thank you!
this is my favorite also. i love to take pics of flowers
Thank you so much Micael, great tips
Delightful! Very good video - thanks!
thanks for the tips, I´ll put them in practice to improve my flower photography. Greetings from El Salvador, Central America.
Simple... but I have learnt a lot... thank you !
These are some nice Tips Micael.
Very nice video👍👍 I will definitely use this tips next time I do photography
Thank you Micael for the tip.
Wow my favorite flower shot thank you for sharing
This is the video of flower photography tips that I've always been looking for, excellent work!
super useful video and beautiful images, thank you!
Great video. This gave me a whole new motivation to pictures flowers which are in abundance here in summers
Happy to hear that, the goal of my videos is to inspire!
You are great and your work is amazing...💐💐💞💞💞💞
Great video great view great pictures. 👍
Also a tip , try to tell a Story about this Flower. What makes it special you selected it. Also keep in Mind Rules of Thirds , DoF and Compositing. It pleases the Eye of the Viewer.
Nowadays I've been doing macro photography and this video is very helpful. Thank you, from Philippines😊
I just got into photography and this video was so helpful thank you
Very nice tips and above all, all your photos are great...
Very good tips especially for a beginner.
Thanks for the inspiration I needed some today.
Thanks a lot! That was a very helpful and well made video!
great tips....your photography is very good...thankyou!
A nice balanced useful video, thanks.
I shoot flowers a lot and these are generally some good tips, but I don't fully agree with you on shooting in the shade. While you can definitely get great results in the shade, I often find that it can also result in quite dull looking photos. Personally I prefer shooting in either the morning or evening sun since you get a softer light at those times of the day that can give you beautiful results. You also get more contrast in sunlight. Although I would definitely advice against shooting in the mid-day sun as that generally gives you a very harsh light and hard shadows.
Yeah that is a great tip that I didn't mention - the golden hour can give beautiful results!
Love your channel. Thoughtful tips suitable for both beginners and more advanced photographers illustrated by excellent examples.
Wonderful tips, thank you so much 😊
Great points, Micael! I like to use shade, too. I will often add a little flash fill on subject to bring it out of the background. If you do something like that, I would love to see your approach.
Thanks for this awesome video, I'll be watching it again and again...so much to learn and practice. 📷🙌 🌸🌺🌻🌼
Excellent video - thank you for the great tips - reverting as a last resort to B&W 👍
Thank you for the suggestions. I like photographing flowers and will keep these points in mind.
And they tell me flower photography is boring. Thanks for the inspiration
This was very nice to watch. What camera do you prefer and do you use Photoshop?
Thanks! I only use Lightroom for photos, never Photoshop. My favorite camera is the Sony A7III at the moment.
Leveraging flatness is a really good and simple tip. Thank you!
No.1 photography. 👍👌🙏🇮🇳
One of my problems with shooting flowers is failure to focus on the center of the flowers. Don't know if it is because of the lens, i.e. too short focal length, or too little light, or not enough color contrast, like in the case of pink color pedals?
Keep moving the camera towards or away till you get the correct focus.
Please check this out:
ruclips.net/video/yZR_EaWQFxc/видео.html
You have an unique choice of lenses for photography of flowers. How about a 50mm ?
Is there no way to focus on both of the flowers in front and the one is the back?
That is very hard due to how light and optics work. You could try shooting from more distance, using a smaller aperture (bigger f-number) or focus stacking (search for my video about focus stacking).
Very Helpful. Thank you for sharing.
I really like your photos. Do you do classes, arrange excursions etc? I have and old crappy macro lens but it would be interesting to get some hands-on tips from a pro before buying more stuff :)
Sorry don’t do any of that at the moment. Might do in the future.
Very helpful straight forward video. Great images as well. I’m off to macro shoot this afternoon
Love it ♥️
Good advices given, thank you!
Just have me an incredible idea. Thanks 😊 Chief. Hugs from KOLKATA India 🙏
Dude I thing that this is best photography youtube channel I have ever watched
I love ur video M. May I ask how to download an Adobe lightroom in laptop.. thanks for the help
Download it from adobe.com
Thank you for your tips.
Really enjoyed your video. I too enjoy flower photography. Great tips, thanks.
Great Tutorial!
thanks for explaining flower photography
thank you so much 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
very enjoyable and helpful video Micael
Thanks Micael, after going through photos after a recent trip with my photography group to a botanical garden here in Utrecht and seeing many of them look like rubbish for the reasons you highlighted, this video came up in my suggested ones...like RUclips is reading my mind haha! Well done, clearly explained, really helpful.
Awesome, more inspired now.
Very nice. I want to try this.
Great video! Thanks Brother! 🙂
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for your tips Micael, it is simple but helpful. Specially about the flat side of flowers. So, now you get a loyal subscriber. :)