This was an extended coffee break well spent! I really enjoyed watching you two decode the images and explain approaches to capturing these tiny subjects. Fast-moving insects, wind gusts, and light are all challenges we face. I wish you all the best and thumbs UP for sure.
I really Enjoyed listening to that conversation where methods stacks/vs non stacks and how the people got their shots was discussed . Its refreshing to hear an actual macro photographer talk! you can tell he knows what he is talking about.
The multiple exposure of the eye and the trees was exactly what the photographer said it was. The photographer is Ben Dauré. I saw his work in an article and was blown away. I then googled him and found out he lived in the same city me. Contacted him and we are now good friends! He does really original work with those in camera multiple exposures well worth checking his work out for something different in the world of photography!
I bought this lens last year and I love it! It's completely manual so only pure photographers will appreciate it and because of that, you can get a slightly used one at a great price. www.adorama.com/ve6028nkf.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwmKLzBRBeEiwACCVihhNV3xm1SkEemEp4oBsOI-6Nm0Vt5AOhUvyGIPM5h4PueGcsFxVPYBoCTUQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&
My first love is Macro and has been for over 30 years now. I use my 100-400mm lens for macro all the time like he talks about. It is hard to do but so cool when it comes out right. Great video!
Also, at 35:40 Fuji's 16mm F/1.4 is a great wide angle macro. You can nearly get focus when touching the front element to the subject. I think minimum focus distance is roughly 2-3 inches from the front element.
An excellent video with lots of interest - from a different perspective to that which most of us enjoy in photography. This video kept me enthralled. Many thanks to all involved.
For the mysterious eye shot, I believe this could be achieved by a clear glass reflection of a forest with the subjects eye on the other side of the glass. Maybe some frosted paint or ice was applied to the glass to create the frosted vignette effect.
What I thought as well. Could also be a double layered glass, which gives the same ghosting effect that mirrors do. Another detail - the bottom part of the forest is a water reflection like a lake, not a camera being twisted around.
GREAT video and I really appreciate the great questions, Patrick , to help make sure we understood all the concepts. Very inspired after watching this!
Super interesting. You should look up Don Komarechka he does amazing macro photography especially his snowflake photography. He uses the handheld technique to stack his snowflake images. He also freely gives away his methodology on how he captures his photos. He would be a great person for you guys to interview.
Christopher Martin yes Komarechka is great, especially his work with snowflakes and water droplets, and you. can view a lot of his work on Flickr, especially on snowflakes.
I think the black object presenting as a black surface and a square in the middle is a small plastic piece. The beauty comes in the opalescent nature of the plastic.
I follow bees around my yard and meadow as they collect pollen and nectar, I use an old macro lens with manual focus only inthe breeze and have gotten some wonderful images, but they eyes of the insect must be in focus, and either more head on or profile, so many time the bees are crawling around on the flowers facing away from you, and other insect when I find them all want to run away, but you gotta be patient and nimble
I personally have always liked the style with a little bit of blur in some areas of the photo. I can appreciate depth of image as well, or the stacking technique, but I like the raw aspects of a photo. To me, when they're nearly perfectly cleaned up, they don't look like photos anymore. Like that fly one in the beginning almost looked like digital art or a drawing or something. But great video, guys. I am glad to learn about the "sweet spot" with Canon lenses--Andres mentioned it was somewhere between F8 and F11. I didn't know that!
The photo of watch was taken with one shot no stacking, the bellows camera was used. if you may see, the table surface is out if focus, because focus plane is parallel to the watch and the depth of field is so narrow here. The medium or large format rail cameras may do tilt-shift job, but tilt-shift ability is expended relatively to tilt-shift lens.
Macro isn't for everyone. If you want to try macro, don't waste money on expensive macro lens, just buy extension tubes and a cheap used strobe light. Extension tubes increase your magnification, and the flash allows you to shoot low light, and also allows for faster shutter speeds. And if you really enjoy macro, only then, you should buy dedicated equipment. PS: Micro four thirds cameras are better for macro, due to higher depth of field which means you can see better right away, and remove need for focus stacking.
Or just buy some extension tubes and don't buy a flash. Nearly everyone uses flash in macro but great and different results can be created without a flash. Flash dominates the colours, kills the reflections and is troublesome with highlights. There are always more than one option.
The camera moves in very small increments (microns) and the focal plane is always in the same position, so technically speaking, you are scanning slides of focus from the subject, when merged together the software I use (zerene) accounts for the changes in depth
Thanks a lot for this, love it. I just started to be really interested in Macro photography and tried to make video but now I got more inspiration 😃🙏👍 Next time I will try to make a video that actually be interesting for everyone 😄 Mayeb explain a little about the images also 👌
I see the link to the article but not to the class presale or to Andres' site (I'll ge that from the video). I am interested in the class when it is available.
I love macro, and especially insects... but I don't use stacking. If I can't get it in one shot, I don't bother. Feels more natural that way. There are exceptions, such as illustrations or charts where you might want all in focus.
34:00 guys, could it be there's glass in front of the eye and the *reflections* of the distant trees are at the same focal length as the close up eye ? I imagine a mirror table could create the vertical reflection of the trees to be superimposed over the eye, behind a pane of glass. at least that's how I'd attempt this in camera. Would be a challenge to hide the reflection of the camera. so that does make me more suspect the double or triple exposure, just pointing the lans at the eye and then at the mirrored trees. I think it's pretty cool in any case! (would be easier in Photoshop lol)
Nice video! Hey Andres, can you please recommend a lens for me? I'm shooting with a Canon Rebel T7 with a kit lens and don't have enough working distance to get up close to my artwork. Imagine taking a photo of a flat circuit board full of details and pushing the minimum focus distance of 10". I can't get in close enough to capture a full frame photo without cropping the image and then I lose my pixels. I need to get "big ass prints" made up from my images. Can you or anyone out there assist please? I don't want to buy another camera but I will spend the money for another lens. Thank you.
I do a lot of macro, and love it. But you really need good lens, a decent low light camera ,I use the Sony a7S, because of it’s low light capabilities. My primary subjects are flowers, because they are very easy, they don’t move, and you can compose a lot of varying angles from them.Another thing which makes your pictures good ...to great is the background and the lighting, those two things are essential.
I have a question. is this specialist still availible? everytime i stack and there are thin elements (antennas of ants) in the foreground i encounter a problem: the focus plane with the head in focus is so much further in the background that thin foreground objects appear wider or blown up because of them being out of focus. then they obstruct the view on elements of the background. so always when there are thin objects in the foreground they are sourrounded by blurry background.... how do i solve this problem?
@@andresmoline751 thx for answering. I'm currently using affinity photo but considering switching to helicon. do you think that would make a difference?
Please help out a macro beginner here... ive been using a tokina 100mm f2.8 for marco which has a 1-1 magnification. At this rate of magnification, the image doesn't really show the fly eyes etc. How do i increase the magnification or do i need to get the image super sharp and crop the image ??
No, it is not. Only look at the pupil. There are leaves and branches growing into it. I don't see how this would work with multiple exposure. After some thorough concideration I would highly doubt that it is a simple multiple exposure.
close the aperture, to f8, f11,or f16. you have to try n see which ones works for you,, is different for every object, depending on the size and what angle you shooting
No word of in-camera focusstacking functionality..? Come on Patrick..! U shoot the D850 which was one of the first camera's with focus bracketing.. I was jealous of my friend for this, but, Fujifilm updated the software, it's now possible on the X-T3 and other camera's as well i guess. I use it quite a lot, even in landscapephotography. I will do a vlog on this soon.
I wonder if Andres is familiar with IN CAMERA focus stacking such as the Fuji XT2, and XT3 use? As I am curious how that would differ from a rail system changing the optical quality of a stack?
@@andresmoline751 Thank you for your response. I myself recently in the last year switched from Nikon to Fuji for my personal work (shoot Canon at my portrait studio job) and have been looking learning more on Macro photography, and have just started testing out the Fuji stacking feature. So I am learning as I go. I used to use extension tubes (manually focusing) for macro work with my old Nikon film gear, so using auto focus and with in camera focus stacking with it is a totally new technique for me.
Stephen Stanford ahh doesn't matter, there is so many ways to say the same thing these days. And this is a manufactured brand name that means nothing but an association to a brand of products.
Pedro R I’m happy to talk about what I know. What question do you have specifically? Andres uses a ton of different flashes and modifiers because the range of macro styles is so wide. -P