I never had kids... When I first time married at 50yrs old (freelance n fashion photog, free n wild!!) she had a son n when he had a daughter, We had an opportunity to be around her for long periods of time and I started to really enjoy the experience of Little People !! ThankYou for including Pike, He is an amazing Little Person :) :) :)
I find focus-stacking works best where your subject matter remains perfectly still for the whole sequence. Shooting flowers, insects and “critters” in the field rarely offers that - “critters” just get up and walk away with no regard for the patient photographer who has spent time setting up his camera for a perfect focus-stacked sequence. Most of my shots-from-the-field are either just single shots or single shots taken from a burst-sequence, as you demonstrate here. Cute assistant! Pike and Piper are sweet, beautiful children who no doubt represent a significant investment of heart and soul. I am seriously old and my children who I had quite late are all grown up. I am still storing a ton of their Lego waiting till they eventually take it off my hands for younger generations! You can’t throw this stuff away…
Thanks for sharing the macro technique. I will try it with my Fuji X-t3 and 80mm macro. I have grandchildren 9,8,7,6 and 6. Legos of all sizes and types live here and are a favorite subject of mine to memorialize their efforts..Awesome airplane Pike.
I shoot macro almost always hand-held; most of the times using manual focus too instead of AF. To keep ISO low, it helps to shoot with a flash but of course then you cannot burst-shoot as quickly so getting a burst of images that can be stacked is harder.
Your boy is adorable. I'm so behind in watching your great content; think I've got several of your videos opened at the moment, watching snippets when I get a chance. Used to do SO much macro shooting (D 3 and non VR 105), then when I jumped to the D6 my 105 didn't auto focus any more but I continued to try to use manual focus, but I pretty much had never used a tripod so got out of any macro mindset when out and about. Anyway, got the f mount VR 105 for the D6, and now have the Z9 as well, and yah have pretty much only taken a relative handful of macro shots with the 105 VR. LOL. SO, delighted to see the topic of this video show up as 1) love handheld run and gun macro shooting and 2) while I've had many 'keepers' in my macro work I've had hardly any wow myself results and am hungry for tips on how to up my macro game. As always, thanks for sharing your talent and insights.
I admire your creative techniques! May I ask is that a hoodman eye piece on your z9? Where did you get it? Also how did you do the depth of field on your Z9? Your son really admires his dad!
I’m not sure about his eyepiece but I manufactured my own eyepiece for my Z9 using a hoodman round eyepiece and then taking the rubber off the metal rings and putting the metal rings from the Z9 eyepiece in its place. It works great. Be careful doing it though because if you mess up the Z9 eyepiece, it might be a while till they are in Stock to replace
That hack also works with the more more affordable hood ($13) I link with the z6ii and z7ii at my links. Www.hudsonhenry.com/atslinks That's what I'm running. It'll be in my video next week. :) In my bank A setup video for the Z9 I show how to map dof preview to the video record button in stills mode. It's a dead button otherwise and dof doesn't require you to roll the wheels and is right next to the shutter, so it's a great spot for it.
Always great Hudson. I noticed your eyepiece to block light. Where can I get that. I clicked on what I thought was your like- ordered it but didn't fit. Thank you.
Hold onto that one for the Z6 and z7. I'll show you how to hack it into a z9 one this week. That's what I'm using, it just takes a few parts swaps with the Z9's eye ring. :)
Hudson I don't remember you covering the built-in focus-stacking functions that Nikon Z7 and Z7ii support. I use them and enjoy them alot. Is there anything different about how the Z9 does them? I'm talking specifically about the 'focus-shilft' in-camera facility. I have tried it handheld but without benefit of a smooth desktop surface to aid stability and... it doesn't work so well without a tripod, mainly because the viewfinder is blacked out for the entire photographic sequence so you don't get feedback about how well you're positioning the camera.
I use it too, but only on the tripod. It's identical for all intents and purposes, but you do have zero blackout with the 9. :-) You can see that as I record my screen shooting the handheld non-stacked burst in this video. I'll do a video on stacking before long. It is such a cool way that Nikon implemented it.
I never had kids... When I first time married at 50yrs old (freelance n fashion photog, free n wild!!) she had a son n when he had a daughter, We had an opportunity to be around her for long periods of time and I started to really enjoy the experience of Little People !! ThankYou for including Pike, He is an amazing Little Person :) :) :)
Great content, and I think your young assistant really adds value to the video.
I find focus-stacking works best where your subject matter remains perfectly still for the whole sequence. Shooting flowers, insects and “critters” in the field rarely offers that - “critters” just get up and walk away with no regard for the patient photographer who has spent time setting up his camera for a perfect focus-stacked sequence. Most of my shots-from-the-field are either just single shots or single shots taken from a burst-sequence, as you demonstrate here.
Cute assistant! Pike and Piper are sweet, beautiful children who no doubt represent a significant investment of heart and soul. I am seriously old and my children who I had quite late are all grown up. I am still storing a ton of their Lego waiting till they eventually take it off my hands for younger generations! You can’t throw this stuff away…
Great content! Pike is adorable... love it!
love your assistant!
So fun to have Pike there too. My big boy loves macro photos with our little Olympus TG. Bursts are always the right answer with low shutterspeed.
Hudson it was a great technique. I found that some times you could actually stack a few images to get some greater depth of field. Thumbs up to Pike…
Thanks for sharing the macro technique. I will try it with my Fuji X-t3 and 80mm macro. I have grandchildren 9,8,7,6 and 6. Legos of all sizes and types live here and are a favorite subject of mine to memorialize their efforts..Awesome airplane Pike.
He'll really appreciate that. :-)
Great ideas and quiet a skilled assistant!
I shoot macro almost always hand-held; most of the times using manual focus too instead of AF.
To keep ISO low, it helps to shoot with a flash but of course then you cannot burst-shoot as quickly so getting a burst of images that can be stacked is harder.
Pike is a natural!!
Where are links to LEGOs? 😉
Your boy is adorable. I'm so behind in watching your great content; think I've got several of your videos opened at the moment, watching snippets when I get a chance. Used to do SO much macro shooting (D 3 and non VR 105), then when I jumped to the D6 my 105 didn't auto focus any more but I continued to try to use manual focus, but I pretty much had never used a tripod so got out of any macro mindset when out and about. Anyway, got the f mount VR 105 for the D6, and now have the Z9 as well, and yah have pretty much only taken a relative handful of macro shots with the 105 VR. LOL. SO, delighted to see the topic of this video show up as 1) love handheld run and gun macro shooting and 2) while I've had many 'keepers' in my macro work I've had hardly any wow myself results and am hungry for tips on how to up my macro game. As always, thanks for sharing your talent and insights.
I admire your creative techniques! May I ask is that a hoodman eye piece on your z9? Where did you get it? Also how did you do the depth of field on your Z9? Your son really admires his dad!
I’m not sure about his eyepiece but I manufactured my own eyepiece for my Z9 using a hoodman round eyepiece and then taking the rubber off the metal rings and putting the metal rings from the Z9 eyepiece in its place. It works great. Be careful doing it though because if you mess up the Z9 eyepiece, it might be a while till they are in Stock to replace
That hack also works with the more more affordable hood ($13) I link with the z6ii and z7ii at my links. Www.hudsonhenry.com/atslinks That's what I'm running. It'll be in my video next week. :)
In my bank A setup video for the Z9 I show how to map dof preview to the video record button in stills mode. It's a dead button otherwise and dof doesn't require you to roll the wheels and is right next to the shutter, so it's a great spot for it.
HUdson, theme apart... Does the Kase Clip in filter for Z6II fit on Z9?
Thanks for your time as always!
Pike is going to be a You Tuber......
Always great Hudson. I noticed your eyepiece to block light.
Where can I get that. I clicked on what I thought was your like- ordered it but didn't fit. Thank you.
Hold onto that one for the Z6 and z7. I'll show you how to hack it into a z9 one this week. That's what I'm using, it just takes a few parts swaps with the Z9's eye ring. :)
Wow, that was quick.
Thank you.
Thanks Pike!
Hudson I don't remember you covering the built-in focus-stacking functions that Nikon Z7 and Z7ii support. I use them and enjoy them alot. Is there anything different about how the Z9 does them? I'm talking specifically about the 'focus-shilft' in-camera facility. I have tried it handheld but without benefit of a smooth desktop surface to aid stability and... it doesn't work so well without a tripod, mainly because the viewfinder is blacked out for the entire photographic sequence so you don't get feedback about how well you're positioning the camera.
I use it too, but only on the tripod. It's identical for all intents and purposes, but you do have zero blackout with the 9. :-) You can see that as I record my screen shooting the handheld non-stacked burst in this video. I'll do a video on stacking before long. It is such a cool way that Nikon implemented it.
Wich L-bracket you uses on your z9 ?
All that info is always at www.hudsonhenry.com/atslinks. Look with the camera. It's listed right under it. Thanks for using those. They help out.
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