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From backyards to city streets, to the National Parks, Macro Photography allows you to become delightfully lost in the intimate detail of our world. Professional landscape photographer and author, Tim Cooper, introduces you to the fascinating world of Macro Photography.
I have been doing macro photography for 20 years. I learned so much watching your video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am going to purchase some of your videos from your web site. I can’t wait to learn more. You are an excellent communicator.
If you're considering macro photography, this is an excellent class. The art of macro also requires much science to master it. It's also not cheap, so it behooves you to watch this before investing time, money and effort in the discipline.
Gosh! What a video! Thank you so much
Really Great video! All areas perfectly covered. A lot of useful tips.Thank you Tim!
Tim I was wondering if I could embed your Intro to Macro Photography video into my website? MacroEarth. com
So full of good, clear, useful information on the subject. While the author calls it an “introduction” to macro photography, it covers much more than any other lecture or tutorial I’ve seen on the subject. I not only feel well-informed now, but excited, too!
Awesome, thanks for that Tim, really useful information and lovely photos demonstrating each point.
The only thing I do not like in the sample pictures of this tutorial is the tiny black spots-stains on the sensor of the camera! Oh! Somebody has to clean the sensor…
Not a macro photographer, but, an excellent tutorial. Well done!
Thank you so much! This was a really excellent class!
frame your subject better and avoid distractions, like that ugly bold head
in the front row
Micro is small , macro is large so yes it makes sense .
Magnification is a property of a projection , regardless of the size of the sensor. Canons crop sensor is 22.2mm x 14.8mm (1.6 crop) & full frame @ 36mm x 24 mm. So if your subject area is 22mm across (edge to edge)and you are shooting a crop sensor 1.6 camera and you image on your sensor fills the frame at 22mm. Then it's a 1:1 ratio. At 44mm image on sensor then it's a 1:2 ratio. At 33mm it's a 1:1.5 ratio.
To get same with full frame works as same @36mm subject area (distance measured across from edge to edge) then the ratio would be 1:1 again.
If you were photographing a subject that is 72mm across edge to edge and it filled the frame through your viewfinder that would be a 1:2 ratio. Simple yes.
So where does the 30mm Lumix macro lens fit into this conversation? Defying all conventional reasoning apparently. Course I don't have another macro lens to compare it to, just magnification filters which distort the edges, but I do think it will be more useful for both closeup and landscape level shots to encompass the plant's habitat without changing lens nor filter. With a magnification filter on you can only get closeups really. But if you'd like a thorough summary of what this guy didn't know back then and how much things have changed, please send some other macro micro four thirds lenses like the Olympus 30mm and a Leica 45mm to the same Thayne you just sent the Lumix 30mm macro to a couple weeks ago B&H and I'd be glad to do a thorough review and demonstration with each.
Thank you
I am only 20 minutes into this video and stopped to comment. This is an awesome, clear, easy to understand video! I have already learned a lot, and Tim, you are a great speaker! I'm guessing you are from somewhere down here near Texas, because you just have that friendly, welcoming way of talking. Okay…back to the video so I can continue learning. I'll definitely check out your web site after I finish.
Great video and very informative for a complete novice like myself.
The most in depth training video I have seen on Macro Photography. It helped me to understand a lot of information. Thank you.
When does he start talking about focus stacking
Thanks so much for simplifying the world of Macro! Now, I'm ready for that challenge.
This video is great! One of my main inspirations to get into macro photography a year ago. Check my channel for tips on high magnification macro photography.
This is a real value of service. The more you know the more you will do.
Something I've often noticed when watching these "B and H" videos. That the audience always look cold, sitting with their coats on……..can you not put some heating in there ???But you always give great tutorials. Thanks for sharing. lolwit
OMG! I have paid for courses that dont nearly explain as well! I have been struggling with macros for years, my prefered photography. This guy has helped alot and im only halfway done with the video!
No wait, @34:00 he is talking about ratio. A 50mm lens with a 50mm extension tube doesn't give you a 1:1 ratio, but a ratio above 1:1, since the lens itself has a magnification, too. The crop factor plays a role, too, because it "magnifies" everything by this factor, for example 1.5x on a Nikon, 1.6x on a Canon and so on. So either I totally misunderstood ratio or this guy is totally wrong…
If you`re a cheapskate, just shoot through your "helping hands" magnifying glass if you have one of those little suckers handy. I did and it worked pretty darn good for stationary shooting. In fact i`ve taken pictures through my binoculars with great results. And that was using my phone. Of course that was before i got into photography and got a proper DSLR camera. I`m considering obtaining a macro lense but the magnification ratios aren`t all that magnificent to me. Still trying to work out how this little mystery works. I am gonna need something that will take really good close up pictures of stuff the size of a small stamp and be able to reveal a high level of detail. Any suggestions i`m all ears nose and eyes.
I have been doing macro photography for about 50 years. I started with a 4X5-inch view camera for Industrial Photography. This is the best intro lecture and slide show I have seen to date. Some very good points. Couple of things he could add, but if you use the ideas he presents, you will do very well. The digital camera has sure made it a lot simpler than it was.
Wow I just learned so much about my new macro lens ! Amazing info! Well worth watching…
Brilliant information, first class lecture, simple to the point and really, really useful! But please delete the 'alright's'!!!!!!!! Its a really odd sound that for me interputs the flow of what your talking about! 🙂
fit and finish on sigma is just as good as canon or nikon. iv never seen a sigma with a plastic mount ring. bs on that
I have serious hate issues with Photoshop. It drives me cucking fazy. I watch hours of tutorials on the Net but when I click the same things they click 9 times out of ten I get either nothing happening or a completely different thing happening to what I see on the screen. I HATE the crappy fucking thing! Plus, it needs a shit load of memory to do anything so already it is only aimed at people with shed loads of cash to buy expensive computers with. The rest of us can fuck off it seems.
Thank you very much. This is was a great tutorial, both interesting and clear. I have learnt so much. Thanks again.
Excellent explanation. Thank you very much 👍
Amazing class and instructor!
I have canon 7d mark ii, so which macro lens would you recommend? and need one more lens recommendations for Bird photography in a low budget.
Thank you sir for this great lesson. I have learned much.