Macro Nature Photography

[Nutball]

 

[pantheraba]

That first one is...WOW!

 

[Tree09]

This whole thread is like a national geographic magazine. Complete with giant close ups of spiders so i can't have happy dreams at night...

<- proper use of the dots

 

[Nutball]

<- proper use of the dots

Mmm... Lets have a closer look at those dots shall we



Looks like 3 pairs of dots to me.

 

[pantheraba]

Burned!!!

I use them a lot... I am probably a serial ellipsisizer....and just to be mean, yes, that was actually four dots... Or was it eight?

Nutball, Patrick, Rem has got me paranoid now.

 

[gf beranek]

looks like a clover of sorts

 

[T Collins]

It's like God's portrait over and over again. Nice work folks!

 

[Nutball]

 

[lumberjack]

Where do you find your subjects?

 

[Nutball]

Anywhere in nature. In the shade of the woods or at night is best for a black background, but I take most of the pictures during the day. I'll walk through the woods, or go out into a field whether the grass/weeds are 3ft tall or 8" tall, just as long as it isn't recently mowed. You can find a tree and carefully examine the bark for about 5 min to dial in your awareness of tiny and camouflaged things, then little critters start appearing everywhere. Looking for little wild flowers is easy enough.

Demo of what it's like when I take pictures. This was a few feet from my house.
View attachment Macro coupler small compressed.mp4

 

[pantheraba]

Are you using a tripod and the movement is the subject actually moving? Wind must play hob with you.

 

[Nutball]

Free hand 99% of the time, so wind is a huge factor, but my own shakiness is another huge obstacle. That was just a quick demo, so I wasn't as calm and steady as I would be nor were wind conditions ideal.

 

[gf beranek]

With macro, even with a tripod, the wind will ruin all. But sometimes you get lucky.

 

[lumberjack]

How about a 1200Ws ring light from Godox? A $450 head for their $1600 battery powered 1200Ws strobe. Comparing the base ring reflector to the base strobe reflector, you give up about .8 stop, with the silver ring reflector its on par.

 

[gf beranek]

I want one

 

[lumberjack]

Hardly Nutball level, but I did break out the macro lens today for some icy buds.

This second pictures is a 100% crop.

 

[lumberjack]

And here's an iPhone 11 Pro Max screen, 2000% crop. Apple says the screen has 458 pixels per inch, it's amazing how close together and small the dots are compared to a television.

 

[Tree09]

I'm like a dog watching tv in these threads! That's nuts you can zoom in that much, i didn't even know that was possible

 

[treesmith]

My wife went walking in the snow yesterday with her camera. Got a good one of our German Shepherd.

 

[stig]

That is one great dog picture, Scott.
Stick in in the hounds thread, please.

 

[Nutball]

Hardly Nutball level, but I did break out the macro lens today for some icy buds.

This second pictures is a 100% crop.
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My camera has a size advantage making it easily good at macro, but often times the money advantage wins out on color and clarity if nothing else.

I was considering trying to get a shot of the freezing rain pellets, but haven't got around to trying yet.

 

[Nutball]

Not on my better camera. It's really annoying how grainy it is, so much detail is lost that I can't crop them much for a closer look.

 

[Nutball]

 

[Nutball]

View attachment Forest floor with music.mp4

 

[Nutball]

Kinda weird I can't type in the same post as a video. Anyway. Just keep in mind this picture from the first page when visiting Whoville in the video above.