Thanks a lot! It's amazing to me I can have friends around the world through KZbin

@@CheikoSairin Great to hear from you.

Yes, it had a very good lens

I was about 5-6ft away. At 3:24 the purple flower lower right is where butterfly was.And the camera there. I have a Tamron 300 mm made for aps-c. It's very good for the close-up, but I wanted more reach.. One thing about full frame there better in low light. My ISO on my A6700 gets kinda high in low light, depending on the lens. I have a marumi DHd anchromatic macro 200 +5 lens that screws on to any of my Tamron lens, making them macro.

@@kathrynzhadley7799 I wonder if the D fly can see its reflection in the lens.

@RunNGunPhoto great to hear from you. I've used Rode mics for 17 years. The Doves are in our yard in the winter when we feed them. They moved west to the neighbor in the summer for some reason. There are about 15 acres away in the recording.

@@LonerJoe_Hadley That does a good job of picking them up then!

@BMadPhoto The bird that sounds like an Owl is a Dove. I have owls on the prop. I've seen one in a tree twice in 18 years. They are very illusive

👍 😃 ❤️

@@LonerJoe_Hadley 🙂🙂🙂

Why thank you for the wonderful comment 😃 🌞 🌟

It's very directional. In the video when I pointed the mic at the camera I had to use audio from the camera. If the mic is pointing forward and your eyes looking forword it will pick up sound from what you see. About 180 degree. I bought the dead cat separate. It's great for reducing highway noise as well as wind. Rode makes a micro videomicro go II thats might be just as good

@@LonerJoe_Hadley Thanks Joe - I didnt realize that the mic2 and micro2 was not the same thing, glad you just mentioned that or I might have gotten the micro accidentally - but I dont really need a tiny one

@BMadPhoto I found and picked up a Rode VideoMic Pro+. it has noise canceling. However, it is $299.00 Amazon, let's me make 0 interest payments so it is easier to afford

@@LonerJoe_Hadley Thanks Joe - are you going to replace the go ii or does this serve a different purpose? Seems like overall its an upgrade :) Have you noticed much other difference aside from the noise cancelling? I am debating actually between these two mics and also the other rode NTG - they all seem so similar having trouble deciding

@BMadPhoto The pro has a battery and better sound on camera without using the phone than the go II. I also got an adapter/hub that converts the rca style plug to usb for phone recordings. I went out to do some testing. The birds have gone to the mountains for summer. It was so quiet in the valley. Just the neighbors rooster and a distant Dove. I tried my rode USB nt+ studio mic on the phone, and it wasn't good. The pro+ has a +20 dB gain boost that can be turned on when using a wind muff.

Yes, nature's wonderful. I feed the birds in winter there, my friends. I don't feed Robin's, they eat worms. they have the prettiest voices. I wrote a song. Have you have you have you heard. The sound of the morning birds morning birds. Sing your sweet song out to me. It must be so lovely to fly free. ✌️

@@LonerJoe_Hadley that's cool! Take care Joe! 😀

I like the Laowa it's small and sharp on the crop sensor camera. I have a Sigma 105mm macro I got after the Laowa. It has auto focus I can use for focus bracketing. It's big n heavy. I usually record outdoor sound with a rode mic and rode reporter app on my phone at the crack of dawn on Sunday morning to put in my videos. This one had such good on camera sound I left it in and cut some of the trucks going by. I live by a highway. We had a lot of rain here in Oregon this spring, and the roses are better than I've ever seen. Keep in touch. I love your videos.

@@LonerJoe_Hadley Oh thanks for the compliment, and yes - I enjoy connecting with fellow macro shooters and will keep a look out for your new videos also :) I have a rode wireless go and the dji pocket mics, both of them really cancel out most noise aside from me talking - I would love to get more ambient nature sounds though. Which rode mic do you use or recommend for more ambient and bird sounds, one of their shotgun styles? (the in camera mic on my Olympus is horrible outdoors without a mic plugged in)

I use a video mic go II. www.amazon.com/Rode-Camera-mount-Lightweight-Directional-Microphone/dp/B09MRLGL7G It's usb type c and plugs into my phone and the rode reporter app. It has better quality that way than plugging it into the camera. I don't know about iPhone. I took out my rode usb-nt+ yesterday. It's big and heavy. I haven't listened to it yet. I've also used Dolby On app. It saves to my phone. The rode reporter I have to email recording to myself. It saves inside the app. They both have noice canceling. They won't take a semi truck out, however. 😃

thanks for watching. im happy you liked the video. Everyone likes a flower, right.

Thank you for visiting. I took a lot of out of focus images 😆 I was lucky to get a couple of decent shots

Ha yeah I get those too. I don’t mind though, it’s all good practice and you usually get a good one every so often. But occasionally you get an amazing one, that makes it worth it.

Thanks for visiting. The roses are unkept. No pruning fertilizer spray, just water, and there thriving. I'm working on a video with photos of them

Thanks for visiting. I watch your videos.

Thanks for watching, much appreciated

Thanks for the tip

I love flower photography

You're welcome. Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks a lot

I forgot to mention what ever happened to those videos? You seem to have them hidden or deleted them? Just wondering.

I've been thinking about you for the last 3 days maybe you heard me. I deleted all the old videos and moved on. It is so good to hear from you. I cherish your friendship through the years ♥️ 💛 and on through the years

Ya know, when I was looking to buy it, I searched for it and found nothing. So I made a video about it myself. Thanks for the comment

@@LonerJoe_Hadley i went and buy because of your video. Thanks!

@cyb I really like mine. I think you will, too.

My next video will have some footage of me using this versatile tripod.

the ball head unscrews off a 1cm post

I'm so glad to see this post. It makes me think 🤔 your awesome

This video is live on my channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGPciaBqe96MidU

The only problem I have with it is the baseplate that attaches to the camera. It comes loose if you turn the camera while on the tripod. I have to not twist the camera, just the tripod ball head. The camera doesn't fall or anything. The screw on the base plate just loosens, and the camera is no longer stable. Other than that, the tripod is built very heavy duty and solid.

I'm amazed how versatile it is.

Thanks so much 🙏

There is a black n white of mom fishing at a log jam. I used some of your black n white techniques on it. The gradient mask upper left had some banding on the export. I also see in the video I sharpened it too much.

@@LonerJoe_Hadley Banding may have been due to editing an 8-bit photo instead of 16-bit.

@RunNGunPhoto they were 16bit png but I unchecked transparency. Maybe it needed that. Also lightroom export defaults to 8 bit png. I have to change it every export. Maybe I missed changing it.

@@LonerJoe_Hadley Ahhhh, yeah it could be the 8bit lightroom editing.

For sure. All the technology that we have now. Everyone has a camera in their pocket

Why thank you, Daniel. Much apprec