Methods in Macro Photography with Thomas Shahan 

Amazing words !!

Exactly what I was going to write. I'm inspired and going to act on it.

It's like the Bob Ross of photography

nice

Joy has been hard to find lately. But I managed to find it again in nature.

I know right, every tutorial video is like no 1 boom no 2 boom, no 8 done

Outstanding shots, great lesson.

" Peacockspiderman" Yaeee!

I seriously love these spider's.There like a little gem.

Hi Peacockspiderman how are you? Hope all is well. I'm thinking of getting a tattoo of the spider what do you think?

Yaeeee!

Yes, this video was one of my main inspirations for buying my first macro lens. It also inspired my new RU-vid channel where I show a high magnification setup that you can build cheaply yourself.

@@MicaelWidell I like your videos. I'm gonna get a 28mm lens to use with an inverter ring for macro shots.

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Well said, I agree!

I agree!

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Hi Thomas. Really appreciate if you could satisfy my curiosity re- the above question. Love your work. Thanks. Gelert :)

To the extent of my knowledge, I don't think the brand of extension tubes are the determining factor. I'm not exactly sure how he gets so incredibly close haha but the type of extension tubes shouldn't matter. I use a very cheap set with a reversed 50mm and I get about 1.5:1 magnification but he seems to get at least 2:1.

cole udall That's what interests me too. Great if he would reply.

By cropping the image you can milk some additional magnification. That's where a high pixel sensor comes in handy. I think too that Thomas is using a small aperture, say f16, to get the depth of field (DoF) increased and get more of the bug in reasonable focus. The flash gives him the ability to stop down and also helps to freeze the action and get a clean image. This also allows the use of a cheaper lens that has no image stabilization built-in. So, the flash is fairly important unless your object is in bright sunshine. The Oshiro 60mm f2.8 macro lens can do 2:1 magnification. It is low cost but pretty sharp. It is a purely manual lens. BTW, it can focus at infinity too.

I , too, was inspired by Thomas to photograph spiders and insects. It certainly won't be the cheapest option, but I was able to add up to about 36 mm of extension tube behind my excellent birding lens, Canon's 100-400 Mark II. This is a relatively new lens that can focus down to about 1 meter. Adding 12 to 36mm of extension tube brings it in real close. My prior birding lens, the Canon 100-400 Mark I could only focus to about 6 feet, but the difference between 6 feet and 3 feet is huge, as extension tubes are usefully effective on the new lens, but not the old.

+dPico totally agree, very nice video

My mom taught all of us kids to never kill spiders...they're so beneficial. She'd wrap them in a tea towel and shake them outside in our huge garden. Even in winter, she'd carefully wrap them and out they'd go....I still do that today.

Hi Jann - I used to do the same until I found out that this can kill house spiders (big ones in winter) now I just let them do their thing and we generally stay out of each others way )

Shame on you for ever doing so in the first place!

I'm never gonna squish a Dr. again!!

Jann Smith Some spiders can only survive inside in the winter so if you let them out you’re also killing them

A beard helps

probably spiders recognize him :)

I have heard that throwing them a fly first helps a lot.

He’s a spider whisperer.

Thomas Shahan Sir, In my DSLR (Nikon D3200) even in Manual mode, if i unmount the lens, the Flash does't work. It says it Won't work without an attached lens ! what should I do ? I am a student, and don't have much money to buy a new Body !

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Bibs Photography Not understood, why flash is needed to work, with no lens attached............

what's your IG..?

+BubblesPothowari bcoz in reverse lensing you will find that very less light will get in your camera. thats one of the reasons to use flash