Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we're out with a macro setup. In this case, this old
Nikon lens 35 to 70 film era with an adapter...
and the two EF-M extension tubes.
I also have this AndyCine Boling P1 light to get some light on the situation.
I have this nice hat on today for... it's deer season or something in this area. So
that's over there, but it.. just in case, I'm gonna have his on.
alright
Nice rock here...
Interesting enough 35 seems to be better with the macro stuff than at 70. Try a
few different things. Try different focal lengths and see which one works better
for what you try to do.
When doing things handheld it's pretty challenging so you do want to use a
faster shutter speed if you can in these situations.
So far so good finding stuff with macro. It's so easy. There could be any little
thing and it's good subject for that type of stuff. There's trees around, snow
even. Definitely macro is the thing to do with you are wanting to make it easy on
you. Of course, the technical side is more
challenging. Trying to stay steady and things like that but easy to find subjects.
Using the blue peeking is actually better in nature situations. I do use red
a lot, but with the blue peeking you get those blue highlights and stuff like
this it's gonna be a lot of greens and things where blue does work pretty well.
I mentioned this in previous videos, but when you have a flat plane in macro
situations, it really helps out to get more in focus. Because it's right in line
parallel to the lens and if you try to tilt it just even a little bit
you're gonna potentially have a very small sliver of stuff in focus. There is a ton
of little things here on this tree to take pictures of with macro. So you've
got a little bit of color. You've got the nice white whatever that is and even
just the pieces of dead mushroom or something. Just a lot to look at. The zoom
lens is actually pretty nice for the macro stuff. When you're at 35 that
appears to be the closest focus you can get. Of course, you have the actual focus
ring to as close as possible. But then I go to 50 or 70 I get a better wider view.
And it helps out in some situations with the subject you're trying to get.
Sometimes you don't want exact super super close focus or close to it. And in
that case the zoom does work pretty nicely!
Setting wise we've got auto ISO. Aperture is on the lens. One two
hundredth of a second. I've just been doing that. It's been working just fine
with auto. We'll have to see the photos and how those turn out, but anyways. With the
light the lens that's just what I've been doing. So this one is.. that.. shutter
speed up top right here. And then also this for the ISO if I want to mess with that.
With the main area of the park blocked off. There are a lot more people around.
So already talking to two sets of people. It's okay...
Also with how the park is. It closes a lot earlier this time of year. Five
o'clock and got maybe 15 minutes left. So I have to move a little quicker.
I am having a little bit of trouble with the angles and how the Sun is coming and I'm
getting some shadows from my equipment on the subject. Depending on how much
power your lighting setup has for macro stuff using the Sun can be helpful of
course. Because it's available sometimes.. some.. right not, right now not so
much, but just try to find a combination that works well enough.
Now I'm doing the booking it back to the car. I definitely have enough time, but
the faster I go the faster I get over there and can look for a few more little
pictures to take...
Human-made stuff like fences, brick walls, things like that, these benches (picnic table) here...
Are great for macro photography. They've got flat surfaces. They've got a lot of texture.
Definitely a good opportunity for photos.
With macro stuff, imperfections.. damage to anything like this wood here can be
really interesting because there's a lot more texture a lot more deviation from
the standard whatever it is. So in this case a large scratch on the table can be
a good macro subject. That was a look at this old Nikon film era lens 35 to 70
with the adapter, extension tubes, M5, and the AndyCine Boling P1 light
with macro stuff. Hope you enjoyed it. Definitely nice fun outing. If you did
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Scott from Photography Banzai
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