The Art of Macro Photography
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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 like this more than the rating system for videos because it's so interesting to learn about how things are done!
I appreciate how encouraging Andres is about every photo. I’ll bet he’s a great instructor.
Many thanks!!
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.
Many thanks for your wonderful comment
This was absolutely amazing! Fascinating!
GREAT video and I really appreciate the great questions, Patrick , to help make sure we understood all the concepts. Very inspired after watching this!
I loved this video.
It really sparked my interest in getting into macro photography.
Thank you 😊
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!
Love this kind of videos, digging in a specific area of photography with examples and a professional opinion. Excellent! Thanks a lot :-)
the focus rail helps remove focus breathing in stacked images
Macro & Micro Photography what a fantastic field!!!!
I can not get over the Passion Andres has for his work!
I've been wanting to get into macro photography for so long. I just know I'm going to love this!
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@@vijaychitte6921 oh that's cool! Thanks.
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.
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@@medfoto1 Laowa gang lol, I just bought the 100mm f2.8
I could listen to you all day long, such knowledge and passion, thank you! :)
Like, absolutely love it
Some dope shots!
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!
Thank you Tammy
Wow guys, beautiful video!! learning a bunch!!
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.
Thank you David!
Amazing content, thank you!
Perfect timing!!!! I just got my Macro lense 😆 Thanks for inspiration 👍🏻
Cheers!!
I could listen Andres talk about photos for a while. He's a keeper
Many thanks!!
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.
Good info! I need to try that lens with my fuji system. Thanks!
Wow! Seven-class tutorial .. not a critique, nor a discussion. Gratias ...
great works
thanks you for making an In-Depths of how kinda it was done 🙏
I just looked up macro photography and this was posted yesterday. It was meant.
will continue watching tomorrow but awesome stuff : )
Thanks!!
could be a lens over top of the eye? The trees are a photo of a reflection anyway.
An excellent macro video, thanks.
Thank you Brenda
Very informative video, thumbs up.
Very cool video. Love macro work like this.
Thank you!
GREAT video thanks from colombia
Thank you for sharing this video, it is informative, interesting, and a lovely peer into macro.
This is a much better format!
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!
Yeah I felt the same way on first pic.
Thank you for your comment! Is greatly appreciated
Since I just bought my Fuji 80mm F/2.8 Macro, I'm liking this vid.
Very interesting and enjoyable to watch
The mushrooms could be a tilt-shift lens if you think the focal plane has been messed with.
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 👌
amazing video
Exploring new horizons this is so cool Off to Sth America! (after Covert)
This was a great and educational video
Thank you Ken
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
Maybe the eye and trees photo was shot looking thru a window using the reflection of the trees (or the reverse)?
Now I watch the video ... I took the photo of Tabanus Lineola ... thank you very much for this mention and review
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Awesome. I really liked this episode. Another amazing macro photographer is Don Komarechka.
Indeed!
Jody Moreau He’s awesome with his snowflakes ❄️ incredibly beautiful
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.
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.
@Ryan Vickers Could be done in one shot, could be a multiple exposure. Looks like something to test for the next free day
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.
Yeah Don is a wonderful photographer
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.
Macrophotography Lover 😃🤩😍😘
The eye photo may have used a beam splitter. Telecentic macro lenses use them to provide direct on axis illumination DOAL.
Thank you for the info
Instructiv video!
Thank you!
The eye look like a camera app I use on my Sony you take two photos a it stacks and blends them. ???
Which app do u mean? Thank you?
stacking done with a macro rail
What or how would probably be a better way to put it. Do you put multiple photos together?
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Andres: This horse-fly is beautiful!
Great vid!
Many thanks!
good job
Fellow photographers... feel welcome to come to Costa Rica, you shall find amazing things here!
That's right!! Pura vida
I was thinking the photo's of the mushrooms could have been taking by placing a mirror on the ground and then photographing into it?
Interesting idea
i like it
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.
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If somebody care to watch tutorial how people photographs of watches are invited to see the video from the minute 25
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)
It could be, still trying to figure it out, thank you for commenting
That one around 16:00 looks more like a colorized electron microscope picture
A hundred times better than the usual critique the community.
Great video, especially that there are zero photos on the walls
In midwest, during the summer......horseflies. Huge......and they can bite. About an inch long. Great for macro.
I loved to have macro lens
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Stick that on the end of your longest lens. You're welcome :)
That’s correct
Lol
which lens used to shoot first picture? (fly)
What programs do you guys use for focus stacking but when your bumping. By hand
By the way how is your treatment going Lee ?
stack and editig is the key next video
every technique is a possible plugin or app, focus stacking should be just that were the camera automatically takes 10 variations in one shot
I hope they make that happen soon
Other than photoshop and Lightroom what other software do you recommend for stack focusing ?
Zerene does a good job
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.
Just added the link! -P
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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.
If u move the camera towards the subject using a rail, won't it change the composition and background???? How will u be able to stack then?
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
@@andresmoline751 Oh okay. Thank you so much
You didn't put a link to Andre's website?
nice to know henry rollins is also a macro photographer
can anyone tell what was the focus rail he used? 25:55
I use the wemacro rail in the video
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 ??
extension tubes
I use the Raynox DCR-250 with a Sigma 105mm. It gives me about 2,2-2,4 times magnification
Extension tubes will do the trick however you will need to use a flash
Thank you guys :)
I don't understand how it's possible to get a deeper DoF without stacking
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
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.
The ant at 8:50 looks like a trap jaw ant queen( odontomachus simillimus maybe?) Since only queen ants and drones have wings
Andres was too bright! Great video!
😁 many thanks Dave!
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?
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@@vijaychitte6921 thx. thats certainly a nice video but the photographer does not tell, how he avoids that problem
What software are you using to stack your images?
@@andresmoline751 thx for answering. I'm currently using affinity photo but considering switching to helicon. do you think that would make a difference?
@@snmemich I have used Affinity, and it works quite well, however helicon or zerene will work the best, how many images are you trying to stack?
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lets get this guy some new shoes. Starving photographer hehehe 32:02
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.
@@OliverWrightPhoto yea i tried extension tubes with no flash.....no luck. lol but then again I am new...so yea. lol
33:45 It's just a multiple exposure, isn't it? Pretty straight forward.
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.
Anybody knows which flash unit Andres is using 25:51 ?
Is the canon mt24ex with diffusers
@@andresmoline751 Thanks a lot Andres. And thank you for sharing your experience with us. Keep it up!
@@dahrrg thank you!
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.
Epic Photography wow, I’ve never used that feature. I’ll have to check it out! -P
@@FStoppers it makes the MACRO life so MUCH easier... ;)
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?
Hi Soren, I have, it works but it has its limitations when shooting insects at specific angles and with fully manual lens
@@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.
How is the environment of that bee arranged in 28 minutes?
is coming out of a flower
@@andresmoline751 Thank you for your answer, but I'm not sure.
14:26 looks like it could be an old paint brush with lots of different coloured paint residue and globules of paint embedded in the bristles.🎨
2:30 It looks like a render haha
Nice images but they won't go into a lot of detail of how they're done. Obviously a commercial for the tutorial video.
40:00 What's the name of the battery pack for the flash? Great video, thanks!
iko I believe it’s made by Godox. It just plugs into the power port of your speed light. -P
@@FStoppers Thanks!
Macro insect photography is creepy for me....but nice work!!