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Thank you for the review. Saved me from buying the lenses 😂

Usually, when you are doing IR photography, you can photograph the grass (green) and use this image for an in camera custom WB. This way, the grass will be white..

👍🏻Now high key!

Thank you!

Congratulations 👏

Thank you so much. I was actually planning to buy these and it helped me a lot to understand about my need. Thanks a ton❤

thank you for sharing this, currently i'm also learning low key toy photography.

This is the best video on this tripod where it's actually being used! I just got a new one from Ebay for $70 haha so pumped I have a vanguard Auctus 323ct that I've had for years and that thing is a beast!

wtf dude 😂

Thanks

You posted this quite a while ago but I found it very interesting thank you. Looks like the +10 shortens the depth of field quite a bit, shame the focus stacking experiment didnt work.

Thanks Mate ! ❤

It's the Leon The Lobster music...

I think this is a great tool for everyone, except the macro specialists. Even my cheap Nikon 16-50mm kit lens get macro capabilities with these. I also think you use them a bit wrong. Such lenses are IMO best described as “reading glasses for your lens”. This means that each of the filters have different distances to the motive where they work best. (As a user of glasses myself, this is intuitive). The approach of a fixed position for the camera when changing filters is therefore a bit flawed, I think. Also, I find that the aperture needs to be smaller (larger f-number) to keep a useable depth of field as you move closer, since the +10 filter has a very shallow depth of field compared to the other filters with the same aperture. Bokeh is of course desirable in macro photography, too, but the correct aperture is rarely the lowest f-number if you want focus on the entire subject. Anyway, thanks for the nice video. I shoot with APS-C, so some of the experience may be coloured by that. And BTW, get a remote for your camera. I used to shoot product photographs as a freelance journalist some years ago, and a remote is extremely useable for almost all shots using a tripod.

i'd recommend buying a tamron adaptall2 103a lens instead tbh. they can be had for 20 quid

2:05 every photo is a nice fungus pic if you have a dirty lens >.<

Thanks for taking the time to create this video - love the location - I just bought a D500. the last of the Nikon old Guard so to speak. Now I'm in need of a tripod - Any thoughts on the Vanguard Alta GH-300T . Pistel Grip head. thanks - Jim Arkansas - USA 📸

Does focus stacking work on a lens where the front element extends and retracts for focusing?

Great photos! I appreciate your tips and especially liked the do your research one, so I know what type of moves they do in advance 😃

Just found your channel, brilliant ideas, I have a Nikon Macron lens, will certainly have a go. Thank you .

Thank you

Nice video. However, people ask important questions and you gave ignored every one of them. As such, I won’t recommend your video to my students.

I enjoyed the video, but was put of by the distracting music.

Using the filters, the higher the magnification, the higher the aperture should be used. Experiment as to which ones work best.

Thanks for the review! I'm in two worlds about purchasing this tripod. For the price, a carbon fibre is within reach. The versatility of this one, though, is hard to get with teh carbon fiber tripods in the price range. Thanks. :)

Nice work! Thankyou mate.

Tried this with a canon T3i same settings 18-55mm kit lens ring light etc and I’m still getting really really dark images so you can barely see the subject I’m shooting. What am I doing wrong

Amazing! Thank you.

I think number 2 photo

The kind of very efficient video I like. You got what you came for, thank you

amazing work!

Thankyou so much charles for explaining it so simply.

I commend you for saying that was a HOW NOT TO video and that's an understatement. One: IR is a longer wavelength than visible light, so the focusing in visible light is never going to work FULL STOP! Now to the rest: In a visible light digital camera with the IR blocking filter over the sensor, and using a 720 nanometer lens filter, which still allows some of the visible spectrum through, the exposure times are MUCH higher than your 6 second option. Firstly, you acquired your exposure time in visible light at a very high ISO, and calculated exposure time in VISIBLE LIGHT at a lower ISO and based on a visible light reading. The differential in exposure is 10 stops or higher using a 720nm filter. Your grassy knoll even in that soft light should have appeared pale and nearly white, not dark as it was. Blue skies go anywhere from light red to dark red, and any green foliage, varying shades of pure white, to mid range white which of course yours did not. Using a filter on a standard camera will give you an overall redish tone to everything (requiring adjustments to WB and exposure among others in post) but that grass should not have been dark. On a bright sunny day that scene at f5.6 and an ISO of around 100 -200 would have required an exposure of about 30 seconds. At your choice of 400 in that low light and at the higher f-stop you used it would have required an exposure of at least 30 seconds or more.

I prefer black & white infrared photography over color. I have only shot digital infrared. I have not yet tried film infrared. I use 720nm or 950nm infrared filters. I use 52mm, 62mm, and 72mm infrared filters. I have never tried infrared with an SLR because it is too difficult viewing through the dark filter on the lens. I do not use infrared converted digital cameras. Cameras I have used include: Canon G11 and G15 digital compact cameras with fixed lens. Fuji X-Pro digital mirrorless with Fuji 23mm f/1.4 lens or Fuji 16mm f/1.4 lens. Leica M10 digital rangefinder with 35mm f/1.4 Zeiss Distagon lens.

Buy achromatic closeup lenses and then see the difference., Also use flas to get no shake in images.

Thanks for this video. I found it helpful.

Do lenses matter in darker venues?

The aberration on that 10X filter is pretty horrendous. At that point, you may as well just save the money and crop in Lightroom since it would produce better results, sheesh.

Interesting video Charles. Could I ask does the rail have any issues with backlash as the Amazon photo's don't show the underside of the unit. If so what do you do to overcome the problem?

There are close up filters that offer great image quality such as the Canon 250d and Nikon 6t. But they're only available used now.

Wow I have learnt so much from watching your video James, I am only just getting into macro. I loved all of these, especially the dandelion seeds. Think I need to learn how to use my camera a bit more. Thank you for sharing, new sun here x💕

great video <3 thank you for detailed explanation

2:17 Really, you should increase the exposure to the right. Then, in post production, you make your adjustments to get the elook you want. In this way, you are less likely to be impacted by digital noise.

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Grazie! 🇮🇹

By far the best video I had seen on texture blending, every step clearly explained why. Thanks a ton for great work

Absolutely beautiful images…..great tips - thx so much for sharing!

Well done! This was very helpful!

Happy belated birthday...

You should lower the level of your background music...