Welcome to Ubud. Fireflies are on the verge of extinction because there are few places that are free from pesticides, the ideal place for their habitat is also increasingly narrowing.
A fun change of pace! Re the ambient light issue, we see very few fireflies in the suburbs of Rochester, NY. 20-30 miles south in farm country, alongside the Genesee River, there are swarms that look like your composite picture, but in a single shot.
You are very close to mount bromo (an active volcano) and also a great place for astrophotography. May be on your next trip. Happy birthday to both of you
I was there at Ubud couple of years ago absolutely beautiful place especially Mt. Batur. The starry sky at night from Mt. Batur is breathtaking. There are many places in the state of Maharashtra in India where they celebrate many fireflies festival every year after summer for a short period. You can watch millions of fireflies there.
Great results and it's really nice to see you picked fireflies as your main subject, because if I am not mistaken, fireflies are dying off, so who know for how longs we will have chances like this.
Hey Alyn, I haven't watched the entire video yet but I'm loving it so far, not saying astro isn't fun but seeing you do something new is really fun! Especially the random portraits and street photography, never expected to see that in a video! Anyway I just wanted to let you know that I dm'd you a while back about the canon 6d, and felt like I should tell you that I'm getting it eventually! Managed to scrap together a budget of about $1k iirc, including the iOptron skytracker pro. Would you agree or disagree on that being my pick on a budget? Worth doubling the budget for a different star tracker?
Wish you and your girlfriend many more laps around the Sun together. I spent some of my summers as a kid near Lucca Italy, and your right about the decreasing fireflies (lucciole). Also, August is when I would see the most, but also the hottest. I tend to visit family in the Dolomiti, don't remember seeing any at those higher elevations. Thanks for doing this video topic.
also make sure not to be in a too dark area. i was trying to do a timelapse of fireflys in the woods last year. i learned that at least with sony cameras at some point you get to the base sensor noise and the pictures change erratically from green to magenta noise between the shots. that is with fixed WB and everything. you can kind of even that out with stacking, the timelapse was unusable tho. i recommend finding a balance somewhere between too much noise pollution and too dim light
Awesome video Alyn! Glad to see you active on RU-vid again! This really reminded me of my childhood, here in Tuscany used to be full of fireflies for the entire summer, now unfortunately they are very rare due to light pollution. A few years ago I was lucky to find many of them during a milky way shoot, it was amazing, got so many even in a single shot.
Oh wow Alyn. I came for the fireflies but learned so much new stuff about lightroom. And i use this since the early days of my 5D Mark 1…. What is didn’t understand: You said you would access the Film simulations when you shot raw. How? What are you able to extract? Are you getting a preset in LR when „extracting“ the simulations?
Fujifilm cameras have a number of film simulations. You can chose them in camera but if you shoot in RAW you can also access them in Lightroom under the Profile option. With other cameras you only get options like Adobe Colour and Adobe Standard etc
Great video! Thanks for taking us along. 🎉 Luckily you still had a camera with you. The images at the beginning are stunning! Well Composed! And the fireflies top it off!
Nice to see you using Fuji cameras, was left an XT2 in my friends will, I have bought the X100V since, just put in a coat pocket or rucksack,well impressed with the results from both cameras, especially the colour quality, always been a Nikon user, the top end Fuji cameras are the XT5, H-H2 and H-S2s plus their Medium Format cameras, Fuji launched the X100IV this week
I love lightning bugs. We usually start seeing them around June here in Minnesota. They are very fun to photograph. Once I had one photo bomb an aurora image I was taking. :)
Happy birthday to you both firstly! There’s a spot in Arizona I grew up at that we used to see fireflies at a kid, and I’d like to attempt to get shots of them now more than ever.
The stars glow and twinkle themselves. When I'm focussed on the foreground they are slightly out of focus and bokeh helps them to stand out better. There's a list of the gear I use on my website
@@AlynWallace Yes, I understand that.. but my camera doest see that much stars.. that's why I wonder how you could achieve this... I noticed great color grading along with that great bokeh effect.. how can I get this out my camera(nikon d3500) Should I change any settings? Or should I change the whole camera?
Wow, thank you! So much info! I really should learn the different blend modes ... for my firefly picture I did layer masks on 40 something layers. 😆 facepalm
Why do you have X100VI in the title? That’s both an easy way to get views and an equally easy way to lose all respect from the viewer. I’d change it to X100V if I were you.
Really interesting video, and something slightly different for you. However, i have been subsribed for years and the cloud curse is definitely getting worse. Maybe it's time to unsubscribe? 😂
