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@@zhuanjifarms5050 Thank you for the compliments. I am glad you enjoyed the film. I also shoot perched dragonflies. In case you haven't seen my latest film you might find that very enjoyable. They let me film them and take multiple shots as they sit perched. It was great fun doing that video

@@tantamount999 I was using the RF 100mm f/2.8 macro for the entire shoot.

@@goodmadehomemade Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it

@@mikemayhew4464 Hi Mike. Thank you, glad you enjoyed the film. Unless I misunderstand the question the answer is: I simply switch between video and stills. Most more modern cameras will have some sort of physical button or software option that allows you to switch pretty quickly between the modes. And that is what I use. On the camera I have there is a record button which works even when I am in stills mode, I just need to set it up for the scene or shoot first or I can make adjustments after starting the record but not show that in the film. Hope this answers what you were asking, if not if you elaborate I will be happy to try and answer more precisely.

@@CheikoSairin Greetings to you too. Happy you enjoyed the film

@@user-os3oe3bi8j Much milder and filled with lots of grey, soggy skies. But it does make for interesting opportunities when said skies clear.

@@RagnhildNielsen Takk takk

@@haraldwarholm2396 Ikke sant Harald. Av og til har de visst hva de hold på med. Artig at du likte filmen. Takk skal du ha.

@@user-os3oe3bi8j thank you so much. Macro is very rewarding when you can see details like that. I feel very lucky to be able to do it.

@@LonerJoe_Hadley Thank you. Happy you enjoyed it. Many damselflies around you? They are very interesting I find.

@geireriknielsen there are but there very fast and fleeting

Well, the idea was that I was going to try that (glare reduction), but there were not that many shiny surfaces excepting possibly the dragonfly bodies. A side effect of what the polariser does is to also enhance saturation. It's worth having a go with and see how you get on. I will keep it on for a bit and practise more. The summer here is sadly quite terrible this year, but we keep hoping it will improve. Thank you for the compliment on the images, I was quite pleased with the result so happy somebody else enjoyed them too.

Thank you so much Stephen. Glad you enjoyed it

@@capturingnaturewithsandip Thank you so much. It is fun to capture some film of dragonflies in flight.

Thank you. How do you get close enough? Wait by the perches?

So was I 🤣

Totally. Every summer I spend hours watching them and photographing them. Amazing hunters.

@geireriknielsen9075 I've been trying to photograph them around my yard. I only have a 300mm. I can't get close to them.

@@LonerJoe_Hadley Are you able to see where they perch? Dragonflies tend to go back to the same areas all the time so if you can work that out, perhaps you can get close enough when they are resting to at least get some nice shots of them resting. You might also be able to get shots of them taking off and landing depending on your patience. Yards I would expect to be a little bit difficult. Do you have a pond where they lay their eggs or are you able to figure out where their spawning ground is? You might find you have some luck there. I was only a yard away from the one dragonfly laying eggs in the film. It sat quite still. Just some ideas in the hope you might succeed.

@geireriknielsen there is a pond but it's surrounded by blackberry vines. Limited aces. There was one perching it had gold wing I didn't have the camera. I got some shots of another one it would sit with its abdomen straight in the air. There gone now. There's some damsel flys.

Yes it was. Glad you enjoyed it and that i managed to inspire you. Makes me very happy

Interesting point indeed. I will try that at some point, see if it is something I can recommend. There might be a follow up "tips and tricks two: the return of the cpl" :-D I appreciate your subscription and comment, thank you so much

Good luck with that and I hope it works. A small tip, I have actually put some additional diffusing material inside the "cup" in order to decrease the brightest light out of the flash. Anything will work for that, some tissue etc. So see how you go without anything at first and if you don't like it you can try with some extra material

Hi, hope you are getting some good shots with your diffuser. Just as an addon to my previous answer, in my latest video, ua-cam.com/video/rnaubw_C5pU/v-deo.html I show the inlays that I was talking about. Timecode 11:36 onwards. You might find it useful.

Thank you. I use a "trick" for the handheld video that you can try: shoot in 120fps. My hands are very shaky, but at that framerate you get 4s per second of video and you can cut and paste your best segments afterwards. The problem is external forces like wind which might throw your macrosubjects way out of focus but you can't do anything about those anyway. Good luck.

@@geireriknielsen Took me a while, finaly figured out how to get the 120 set on my em5 - it was not actually hard to find, but odd when shooting it shows 60p, but I guess thats how it is - odd UI on the older olympus cams. Thanks again for the idea - cant waitt to try getting some macro slow vid for the next one :)

@@BMadPhoto Def give that a go, I am sure you will be pleased

Thank you so much

Thank you so much

Thank you Phil

Thank you. Yes it was gorgeous.

Yes. It is beautiful here when it is not raining

Thank you. Apologies for not posting of late, but a new video is on the way up. Beautiful light

@@geireriknielsen Look forward to it - hope you are well and enjoying the coming of some nice spring and summer weather :) Take care!

Also. To answer your question, no, I have never used a macro lens + extension tubes but you are supposed to be able to with interesting effects so might be worth a go. Though you already have a micro four thirds so some of the effect might be more noticeable on a full frame camera. Extension tubes are great with a telephoto lens BTW. I have used a 600mm with extension tubes and that is a lot of fun, though I would recommend a monopod to help support

Thank you so much @capturingnaturewithsandip

Thank you so much for the kind comment

Thanks for the tip 🙂

Thank you so much Will. Very kind

Thank you so much, very appreciated

Winter macro is a bit more challenging than spring and summer for sure, you have to look harder and be more creative in order to get nice images.

Provided we don't get too dry of a summer there seems to be plenty of lovely little mushrooms about when we get to Autumn, but after this winter I am not yet ready to talk about fall :-D

@@geireriknielsen Some of the UK based folks I follow seem to find mushrooms all winter long there. We're having a weirdly warm winter but normally all you find here is snow. LOL

@@MichelleCox I don't know where they are, perhaps they have access to more woodland than I have. Around me we get mushrooms in October and November usually, but then it is really really good with a plethora of species and every year something new. So something to look forward too as I look out the window at yet another rainy day here. Hope yours is better 🙂

Thank you so much. I apologise, but I did not know you had a channel, I will go and watch now :-) Happy new year to you too

Sorry, my accent probably. The bird is a goldcrest. It's fun going through your yearly pictures, and yes it can be difficult so you have to be utterly ruthless about your own photography :-) Good luck and looking forward to seeing the film

A place near where I live called Linford Wood.

Thank you so much. Really glad you enjoy the little films. I have not much experimented with flash on mushrooms. I don't know quite how to say this without sounding silly, but here goes: A lot of that magical experience I seek from mushroom photography comes from the light being "just right" there and then. There is nothing wrong with flash and I use it when I do macro a lot, just not with mushrooms. You got me thinking now about the why, which is great 😊 Thank you.

Oh interesting, I get what you mean! I went out today but it's been so dry, no luck finding a single one, but I am going to try no flash, much less to carry also!. I get if I go our to try bird photography I'll end up surrounded by them 😂