Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai. In this video, we will be experimenting with macro
photography in a controlled environment. I've got a little diorama of
Legos put together and I'll try two different things: one with a DSLR and
extension tubes, and then one with a cell phone and some add-on lenses. So try
those both out with different settings different configurations with the little
diorama setup. Different angles.. different subjects.. in there and see how it goes.
Now we're going to try this mobile photo set and did a video on this in the past
you can check that out if you're interested. It's cheap little lenses you
can attach to a cell phone.
Now that we've seen some of the results... I'm gonna go over points on each
configuration with the DSLR you have a huge amount of versatility but then you
have some difficulties. Especially with the large camera like that, it's
hard to really get in there and get angles that I was able to get with the
cellphone, but besides that, you have a huge amount of flexibility with
different lenses.. the different tubes.. you can use a dedicated macro lens, so many
options with a DSLR. Of course, you get very thin depth of field when you want it, but
you make the aperture a lot smaller you can easily get backgrounds in focus
really depends on what you want. A lot of options! Of course, with the cell phone
you can't get the blurred out backgrounds nearly as much as a large DSLR. It does
work sometimes, but again it's just really not designed that way.. small
sensor.. and of course newer phones you might have better luck with those.
Especially the current ones where they're really expensive, but they have
artificial intelligence and programming to help blur those backgrounds out. I
don't know how well it would work in this specific situation, but those are an
option. Anyways, it was a fun experiment I think
I'll try to do it more in the future. A nice controlled setting. The little Lego
diorama worked well for macro stuff of course. Gives me a lot of options with
framing, composition, and in the future I'm gonna try some lighting to really
enhance the look of things. So hope you enjoyed this video. If you did
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