Hey Peter, sorry to hear about your back, hope you're doing OK now... Wingless grasshopper and the green wasp ( I think I remembered that right! were my favs even though you said you couldn't get close enough to the grasshopper , it was cute! Though all of the pictures were so good. 👍
Fantastic photography. The Robber Wasp is my favourite although the Parasitic Wasp is extremely strange and beautiful and the Cuckoo wasp is stunning!! Gosh you have Cabbage Whites too. That’s amazing The leaf beetle larvae are also so interesting Loved the spider eating the ant 👍👍👍 Great share mate. Some amazing images there 👍👍🙏
Those macro shots are so insane Peter. Wow! My fav was the dragonfly. Top work mate. Water drops on a butterfly just when I thought I’d seen it all. Cheers for sharing mate 👍🙏
Well done mate. Such a great collection of macro shots. There's so many great photos. The drone fly at the start is superb, I loved the portrait orientation of flower beetle. The mega something or other (i missed it's name) was so cool. I really liked the minimalism with the cutter bee and the colours on the cuckoo wasp were amazing. Brilliant stuff! 👏👏👏👏👏
Hi Peter, we're so glad to hear your on the mend and feeling better. I enjoy all the images but really love the Cuckoo Wasp, it's color is incredible! So beautiful! Thank you for sharing the tiny details of our world. Have a fantastic week! -Jody
Wow that lynx spider is brutal! Those colours on the cuckoo wasp - amazing…and the ‘boodle’(?) fly earlier in the video - stunning photography and informative as always Peter
Great to have you back (no pun intended), Mate you knowledge is why i love watching your videos and the photos to of course, but the amount of information you give is second to none. Brilliant video and the cuckoo wasp was my favourite.
Peter - holy crap your photos are simply AMAZING!!! Beautiful macro - I will work to get there as well. Thank you for sharing - you have such amazingly colorful creature there. 🤗🙏💖
I'm glad you're on the mend Peter. I find it amazing you find such beauty in insects, beetles and flies where most of us would just ignore. You really celebrate this tiny world in such incredible detail and beauty.
beautiful shots like always! my fav is the Dronefly & the metallic coco wasp.... anyway, there is a very2 interesting pre-historic fact about the coco-wasp, i need to dig up the info in my 1st coffee table book publication. will update u soonest
Peter, so glad to see you back, back pain can be debilitating I know. Love your in depth look at these little creatures that we live with. A content producer at YOUR level should have FAR MORE subscribers than where you are. Seriously RU-vid what gives with your pathetic algorithms? Keep loading quality stuff Peter. The cream always rises to the top mate. 🇦🇺👏👍
Thanks a lot Alex, appreciate it! Please rewrite the algorithm haha. All good, just got to keep pushing but I love what I do & that’s the main thing!😀😊
First of all, your photography is exceptional, but the fact that you know almost all of these and interesting facts about them is even more so. Secondly, that you get such extra magnification and quality from a "bargain" snap-on accessory is shocking! I watched quite a few parts of this twice!
Peter, several fantastic images! After watching, I realize the enormous amount of work it must have taken to capture all these images. I love the flash setup! Thanks for sharing!
Those shots are amazing. One thing I’d like to ask. Did you get those shots with AF or MF? I am currently shooting with a full MF Macro lense, but had the opportunity to get the RF 100mm Macro for cheap. I was wondering if it Is worth to buy the raynox on top or rather go for a Laowa 2:1 MF.
Thanks a lot! I only shoot with MF for stills. I primarily use the Laowa 90mm these days with the new NiSi 9 diopter closeup lens. That would be compatible with your RF lens too. It is slightly better than the DCR -250 in terms of image quality. I have a comparison of those two coming soon. Anyway here are a couple of links. Cheers:) nisifilters.com.au/product/nisi-close-up-lens-kit-nc-49mm-with-62-and-67mm-adaptors/ref/peterviragphoto/ www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-90mm-f-2-8-2x-macro-apo/ref/894/
Woo Peter some amazing shots there , I think because of their size most of us fail to appreciate how colourful some small creatures are. That extra lens really gives you some extra reach (I have the same 100mm Canon macro) . Cheers Chris from a very warm Auckland.
Hey Chris, thanks heaps buddy! Yes, I quite like the DCR-250 because it’s super flexible with the snap on mount. It’s quite warm here too at the moment🥵🥵😀 Need to get out and burn some calories, been editing too much😁. Have a great week mate!
Glad to hear your back is recovering, Peter. When I see your work I am always just amazed by the amount of incredible detail in the shot and your knowledge behind the technique or animal/insect itself. The cuckoo wasps colours are so vivid and the water droplets on the butterfly is a nice find, something you probably wouldn't have noticed otherwise. I do wonder if it was bothered by the droplet on its eye haha. Loved the video.
Thanks heaps Courtney, really appreciate it! I would love to take an extreme macro of a cuckoo wasp one day but have only seen a dead one once before, which was semi digested in a cobweb.😬😀
I'm curious how you get such great depth of field in these images. I assume the shots are handheld in manual but how do you get such clear images as f?14 suggests a slow shutter speed??? Very nice images.
Hey Jeffrey. F/14 gets you enough depth of field at 1:1 but sometimes you need to start stacking ( depending on the size of thr subject ) or with increased magnification ratio ( for example when the DCR-250 is attached ). The shutter speed varies but with slow moving subjects where flash ghosting isn’t an issue it can remain relatively slow because the flash freezes motion. I have two tutorials coming up soon, one will be about hand-held focus stacking & in the other one I explain how to choose the optimal aperture for macro photography. Here is a tutorial you might be interested in as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q0G2p-oSxzs.html Thanks for dropping by & hope you’ll have fun with macro!:)
Those are some amazing shots you get. Ill have to try the raynox I thought it would somewhat degrade the images but one cannot tell the difference. The cuckoo wasp was so cool. It screams danger to me with its nice colors
Does the combination of Raynox and 100mm increase the quality/focus or will using just the 100mm have a shorter distance but higher quality? Is it worth adding Raynox?
The focus distance with the Raynox DCR-250 attached is decreased, you have to be closer to your subject to take images that are in focus. If you have the snap on mount it just gives you a flexible option. Let’s say the subject is a small aphid where 1:1 magnificstion wouldn’t be enough, so you can just add it to the front element and ready to go. Cheers
Hey Peter. I might make a video about a few tips re technique. I mentioned many tips in numerous videos but might summarise them one day. What do you shoot with? Cheers
Hi I have a 100mm f2.8 macro lens, but I can't get the focus right with the adapter. I'm losing patience like him. How can you help me to get the focus right Because I've tried in several apertures but without success
Not exactly sure what you mean. I only use manual focus for macro in the field, except for some videos but you can definitely use AF lenses with the DCR-250 too but at e.g. Maximum magnification it’ll be hunting a fair bit.
