Insect Macro Photography - Episode 6

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Insect Macro Photography - Episode 6
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@ggwildlife Год назад

Great video Jamie, these are never long enough for me, could watch them all day, look forward to the next one.

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thank you! I might try to make longer episodes at some point

@sage_anubis Год назад

I enjoy taking photos of insects .. love your videos

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thank you!

@ozymet Год назад

Hello again. I'm glad you're still making videos and taking us on photo trips with you.

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Plenty more to come

@bnielsen44 10 месяцев назад

Impressed by the colored towel techniques.

@silvanotrettel7709 11 месяцев назад

Grazie.

@JamieSpensley 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much :)

@ThomasP525 Год назад

8:04 this is a Six-spot Burnet Moth. (Cinnabar moths have a long red stripe down the wing, as opposed to spots).

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thanks for the ID 👍

@goku445 Год назад

Congrats! I like the respect you have for the insects.

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thanks! Gotta respect nature

@motivatedoutdoors Год назад

I felt your frustration as that damsel fly began flying away. 😂 Glad you still got a photo of it. Like usual, lovely video!

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thanks! Luckily it didn't fly too far 😂

@CelloSonataCH 10 месяцев назад

These are by far the best macro shooting sessions on this platform. It's a shame RU-vid didn't recommend your channel on its own and it had to be another macro photographer who redirected me to your channel.

@JamieSpensley 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! Who redirected you to my channel?

@RodneyGracia 11 месяцев назад

So cool to see what you do. Instant subscribe!

@JamieSpensley 11 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@HenritheHorse Год назад

Awesome pictures!

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thank you!

@nbaker01 Год назад

Great video as always Jamie. The orange & black caterpillars are Cinnabar caterpillars and are usually found on Ragwort plants.

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thanks! Ahh, that makes sense with the large amount of cinnabar moths about

@fupston824 Год назад

Definitely looks like a Cinnabar moth caterpillar (Tyria jacobaeae) at the 5:57 mark (and again at 9:00), especially as it seems you photographed its favourite host, the ragwort flower (Senecio jacobaea).

@adambennett2840 Год назад

Amazing images Jamie, you’re inspiring me to get a raynox and one of those diffusers to give this a try. I’d be really interested to learn what focus differential you use for the bracketing (I too use the em1 my 2 and 60mm lens) and how you focus on the subject matter, as you make it look so easy

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thank you! I use a focus differential of 2 for 1:1 shots and a focus differential of 1 for 2:1 shots (with raynox on). And I start my focus just before the eyes of my subject while staying as still as possible

@fupston824 Год назад

The beetle at 3:15 with the hairy golden-orange body looks almost certain to be Lagria hirta. Possibly male but can't be sure because the ends of the antennae are out of focus.

@MannyScoot Год назад

Thanks brother..... I'm in Arizona and to find a single bug in summer I have to walk 10 miles in 115 degree Fahrenheit temperatures.....

@d.k.1394 Год назад

Lol

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Damn! It's like 12-16 degrees Celsius here and lots of rain

@fupston824 Год назад

Although the true bug at 10:36 (et seq) seems to have very distinctively banded antennae and legs, the best I'll hazard is that it looks like an anthocorid bug, aka. minute pirate bugs. (An overhead view of the body and wings can look a bit boring as a photo but they're quite useful for insect identification.)

@janvangastel6763 Год назад

I think the bee with the hairy forehead is a feather foot bee. I photographed one a cou[le of weehs ago.

@d.k.1394 Год назад

Weee

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Looks like it. I was thinking it may be a Lithurgus chrysurus

@fupston824 Год назад

@@JamieSpensley: Lithurgus chrysurus is unlikely because that's a Mediterranean species. In fact, the whole Lithurgus genus is Mediterranean. Yours could also be an Osmia (mason bees) species but their body tends to be metallic green or blue, so perhaps the one at 3:26 and 3:50 was more likely a Megachile (leaf-cutter bees) species. In fact, given your location at the time, the coastal leaf-cutter bee (Megachile maritima) has to be a candidate.

@debbieross5836 Год назад

Hi , the blue spiky plants are called sea holly . Love your videos you make it look so easy

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thanks! Hours of photographing and editing in a 10 minute video 😅

@andrewchild1592 Год назад

Excellent content as usual. I see your flash is recycling quickly, what did you reduce it's power to please ?

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thank you! I typically use 1/32 to 1/64 flash power

@udob.4117 Год назад

Another great video and it looks so easy to get cool shots. But I know that isnt easy 👍. The bee looks like a little punk 😄. Do you allways use the raynox?

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thank you! I keep the raynox on most of the time and take it off if I want less magnification or a subject is quite large

@CrashEd1664 Год назад

Fantastic video and amazing images Jamie! Daft question - where did get the background cloths? Fantastic idea and very portable! I need to raid ikea or somewhere similar!

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Thank you! I got them off amazon. They are just coloured microfiber cloths

@CrashEd1664 Год назад

@@JamieSpensley thanks mate - I’ll take a look 👍

@mintysingularity Год назад

Every time I watch you taking photos it makes me think you're throwing a rave for your bug friends. 😁 Doesn't the shutter sound bother them?

@JamieSpensley Год назад

A free rave and free fame 😂 Some bugs are bothered by the sound but on a rare occasion. I'd say butterflies are the most skittish

@MariusCicu 11 месяцев назад

Hello, I appreciate your every video and I like the macro photography. I'm interested in what camera and lens you use. I live in the UK but I can't find that diffuser anywhere. Where do you buy it from?

@JamieSpensley 11 месяцев назад

All my gear is listed in the video description. And my diffuser is the Cygnustech diffuser. To buy one, you have to direct message Cygnustech on Instagram.

@MorningDriftwood Год назад

9:37 is a cockroach nymph. Dunno the species, tho.

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Ahh, that's what it is. Thanks for the ID 👍

@fupston824 Год назад

Looks like it could be a female of the lesser cockroach, Ectobius panzeri, which are mainly coastal on sandy ground. Plus the females of E.panzeri have those unusual, highly truncated forewings even as adults.

@speedeurXJR Год назад

Thx for your job Jamie. You make a lot of focus bracketing ! But how you Can have a serie of 60 shoots without any Moving error when you compile the pictures ?

@JamieSpensley Год назад

I stay very still. I do this by resting my arms on my knees and hold the object the subject is on so there is little movement. I'm not perfectly still so sometimes I might miss a frame here and there

@fupston824 Год назад

Leaf beetle at 1:12 looks like a chrysomelid but I can't do much better than that. The Chrysomelidae are a big group, and can be difficult to identify.

@sulagnomukherjee9840 Год назад

Just curious, why do you carry a tripod?

@JamieSpensley Год назад

I don't usually. I was here because I was doing some landscape photography before I started this video

@Harris_Fountas 2 месяца назад

Great video!!!May I ask…The IS (image stabilization) is ON when you execute focus BKT? I use OM-D EM1 Miii

@JamieSpensley 2 месяца назад

I usually have it turned off I think. But it doesn't make much of a big difference when shooting flash because the flash is what freezes the motion

@klaustomasini 11 месяцев назад

Maybe: Ectobius lapponicus, dusky cockroach

@davidf6326 11 месяцев назад

They're Burnet moths. The caterpillars, on the other hand, are Cinnabars.

@Mafu-ue8kq 11 месяцев назад

After watching your video I got an OM-1 and a 60mm macro. I don't have a strobe and diffuser yet, but I'm practising macro photography. Thanks for showing me a very fun world. If you don't mind me asking, what are your standard camera settings? (e.g. single shot, bracketed shots) *Sorry for the poor translation.

@JamieSpensley 11 месяцев назад

That's awesome! Burst mode if the subject is moving a bit, with a shutter of 1/250 and if the subject is very still, I will use bracketing and that limits my shutter to 1/50 because it uses electronic shutter and that is the flash sync speed of the electronic shutter. ISO is always 200 and aperture between f/4 and f/8 usually

@Mafu-ue8kq 11 месяцев назад

@@JamieSpensley Thanks for your comment! You answered my question exactly and I understood it. If one day I get a macro shot that I'm happy with, I'll post it on Instagram! I look forward to more videos from you.

@MyMultiforce Год назад

when you are firing away to make stack are you rocking in and out to focus or what is your method? love your stuff

@JamieSpensley Год назад

If I can get still enough, I will use automatic focus bracketing. But if not, I rock back and forth while taking photos.

@MyMultiforce Год назад

@@JamieSpensley automatic is only 15 shots in camera on the om-1

@janvangastel6763 Год назад

Jamie, if I remember correctly, you are using the OM-1. When focus stacking with this camera one has to enter the number of steps and the focus differential. Do you know how large one focus differential is? I can find this information nowhere. It would be nice if it was the same as the DOF for a certain setting of aperture and distance to subject, but I don't know if that's the case.

@JamieSpensley Год назад

I don't know the exact measurements. But my rule is a differential of 2 when shooting 1:1 and a differential of 1 when shooting anything more magnified

@TheJackPodt Год назад

What do you use as the diffuser?

@JamieSpensley Год назад

Cygnustech

@AnaaNis1233 10 месяцев назад

Got the same setup and a new v350o. But after 10shots, the flash slows noticeably down. I wonder if I got a faulty unit.

@JamieSpensley 10 месяцев назад

Possibly. If you are using a flash power of 1/8 or higher then it is likely to slow down. But I usually use 1/16 to 1/64 and it barely slows down.

@stephencarmickle 6 месяцев назад

I always see awesome shots of damselflies but they never cooperate for me.

@JamieSpensley 6 месяцев назад

It's hard! Go out just after sunrise as bugs are still around this time. Midday, damselflies are almost impossible to get portraits of

@mark1hancock 11 месяцев назад

What focus differential are you using Jamie for your stacks?

@JamieSpensley 11 месяцев назад

Usually 2. But if I'm extremely magnified, I may use 1

@911Polini 11 месяцев назад

could u tell more about the settings..Auto or Manuell Focus...

@JamieSpensley 11 месяцев назад

Manual focus and I move closer or further away from my subject to select focus

@user-ub9tu3xr78 10 месяцев назад

Sorry, I didn't understand: do you use automatic focus bracketing or manual focus? Is the stacking process the same inside the camera?@@JamieSpensley

@angelathomas2117 11 месяцев назад

Watching you do the focus stack you camera and flash go fast when I do it its slow not sure what I am doing wrong

@JamieSpensley 11 месяцев назад

I'm using a high drive mode of about 10fps and my flash has a very good recycle time because of the lithium ion battery

@kennyk4134 Год назад

What settings do you use on the flash and flash camera settings when your stacking .

@JamieSpensley Год назад

I typically use 1/32 to 1/64 flash power

@kennyk4134 Год назад

@@JamieSpensley if I remember you use 0.2 sec flash recharge .I couldn't get a godox v350o so got the hanel modus 360rt .I think its a v350o clone .if I set the recharge to 0.2 would that make the flash fire fast for stacking.

@JamieSpensley Год назад

@@kennyk4134 Yes, 0.2 seconds is fast. I actually have started using 0 seconds and it works fine

@kennyk4134 Год назад

@@JamieSpensley thanks for the help only been doing macro for a few weeks and your videos have really helped. Maybe one day I can produce some of the excellent shots you do .

@mr.inkognito1454 2 месяца назад

Stackst du manuell? Oder nutzt du ausschließlich den Focus Bracketing Modus?

@JamieSpensley 2 месяца назад

I use bracketing mode and then stack on my PC using Zerene Stacker

@d.k.1394 Год назад

Insect is like: WTF

@ukaszbanaszkiewicz8328 Год назад

I know it's your style but these backgrounds ruin everything... you make great stacks but if you learn to use natural backgrounds it would be perfect. Those colorful cards, cloths etc look very bad. Regards