Photographing Wild Flowers with a Telephoto Lens 

Thank you Kimmo. Believe me, I have already enough of Winter too 😉

Much appreciate your lovely feedback, thank you!

Thank you very much my friend! I am glad too, because I enjoyed the time up the hill in the woods a lot. "Stay tuned" Lee ;)

Thank you so much Diana, I'm really glad you enjoyed watching it!

Thank you very much for your wonderful response. I couldn't think of a bigger motivation to continue!

Thank you very much for this wonderful and motivational comment Sean! Trying to fail better over time was and still is my way of progressing, I'm glad you may adapt that ;)

Awww, thak you very much Dot! Sometimes I get deep into processing but here the goal was to create as much as possible in camera - and I am very glad you like it Xx

You are awesome dude! I can not think of a better motivation than your wonderful comment. I hope I won't disappoint!

@@OliverHerbold Eagerly waiting for your more uploads my friend. Proud of you.

@@hasnayenfaisal7469 you have no idea how much that means to me my friend. I will try not to disappoint.

I just had my Pizza Gary :) I have that Sigma too and it will be even easier, for two reasons: First it has 200mm more focal length and second, it has a minimum focus distance of only 2.8m, compared to the 3.5m of my 400mm prime. Good luck hunting mate!

Absolutely! It's an old construction but lightweight and razor sharp. I love it at a walk around.

Most telephoto lenses come with a tripod mount on the lens itself. This makes sense, because most of them are heavy and the center of gravity will be a long distance in front of the camera. These are usually detachable and allow the rotation of the entire camera/lens combination - which is what you have seen in the video. When I work with shorter lenses that don't have a tripod mount and I want to switch to portrait format, I'm using an L-Bracket. Then you don't have to switch your tripod head to a 90 degree angle. I hope that helps mate!

@@OliverHerbold OMG. I'm an absolute dope! LOL When you finally see things that have been right in front of you. That's me! Thanks!

@@brucecoulter312 no you're not. And it happens to all of us sometimes ;)

Hi Rob, the Tripod is a 4-Series Gitzo, the predecessor of this one here: amzn.to/3eLuZxj. The Ball Head is a NovoFlex CB5-II: amzn.to/3yaFdPK Hope that helps!