Macro Lighting - Best Practices in the Field - Show Notes
Hello all! Welcome back to Allan Walls Photography!
Before I forget, if you want information about the equipment that I use and/or discuss throughout all three chapters of this video, you can find all that, with links, in the accompanying article, published on my website and available right here:
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This is the final part of the never-ending (that’s a contradiction - but I like it) Lighting for Photography Series, AKA - Part VII - “My Best Practices for Lighting in Macro Photography”. And this was a monster of a video to put together. By the time I was finished it topped out at one hour and forty minutes! Obviously, I wouldn’t do that to you! So I went back and split the material up into three separate chapters (clearly what I should have done in the first place).
Surprisingly, the edited content broke down into three, roughly equal, standalone videos:
1. Macro Lighting - Best Practices in the Field
2. Macro Lighting - Best Practices in the Studio - Equipment
3. Macro Lighting - Best Practices in the Studio - Technique
This is the first of those chapters. But before I go further, my sincere thanks to my wonderful Patreon supporters and to the marvelous human beings who have made donations through my donation page (www.allanwalls.... None of this would be possible without your support!
If you are not among these fine individuals, but would like to support my efforts and help keep the videos coming, please consider signing up as a Patreon patron, which can be done by going to / allanwallsphotography . I could certainly use your help!
Let me hasten to add a special “Thank you!” to supporter, friend, and awesome photographer, Alison Pollack, whose fantastic slime mold images are featured in this video. I asked Alison to let me share these photographs (they were used with permission) because I couldn’t think of any better example of how continuous LED can be used in the field, providing you have the requisite talent (which is why I didn’t have any of my own to share!). Thanks Alison!
To see more of Alison Pollack’s wonderful work, check out her instagram page…
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So, this is the last video in the Lighting for Photography Series. It’s called Part VII, but because I had far too much to say, it is actually video #11 (or something - I really have lost count). But I promise you this - with these three chapters, I am DONE talking about light. Forever.
Not really.
In Chapter One - this one - I share with you all the things that I think are important for macro photographers interested in shooting in the field. We talk about natural light, continuous artificial light and, of course, flash. I don’t go back over material we have already covered, but rather, I try to take all that information and put it in the context of field macro photography. As the title suggests, it is presented as a list of my “best practices” - the things that I do myself, and the things I encourage my students to do. A few of these practices include planning your shoot, managing your equipment, packing light, keeping a notebook, and critiquing your work. But there is a lot more than just that.
If I have been successful with this and the next two chapters, you will come away from this video with a practical, realistic, and durable roadmap for getting the most out of your macro photography lighting. If I have not, you will get to see some pretty pictures and hear me tell a couple of stories - better than nothing, right?
Just in case there is anybody who actually would have have watched the entire video, prior to my dismembering it, I am releasing all three chapters at the same time, so you still can. You brave soul, you.
I hope you enjoy the material!
See you again soon,
Allan
2 окт 2024
