Close-Up and Macro Photography | Lester Lefkowitz

There is an entire universe of beauty, fascination and intrigue on a scale not readily captured in conventional photography. This video shows you how to get close, closer and really close to the wonderful details and never ending curiosities of both natural and man-made objects
Lester Lefkowitz covers: the concepts of magnification ranges, various optical and mechanical methods for getting close, issues of critical focus and depth-of-field, techniques for camera support and vibration control, lighting (available, flash and incandescent) and the role played by software to both enhance images and overcome pre-digital limitations. Esthetics are just as important: we will discuss composition, background, appropriate light, image balance and subject selection.
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[@NECHOLA]

There was a lot of math in this video, but man, can this gentleman teach! Such complete explanations of everything macro! Fantastic.

[@kaikouravoyager1]

This video is great! Have Lester make more of these. No frills no gimmicks just straight forward teaching. What an amazing concept. Thanks for sharing this

[@georgemundell6958]

This is one of the best presentations about tech information and gear.

[@snapsoon4302]

You are a genius Mr Lester Lefkowitz. I loved every minute of this video. My mind is blown away. Thank you so much. God bless.

[@dro7684]

Great! Thank you. A good teacher has to introduce questions, jokes, and other devices to maintain the audience interest in the subject matter. The beauty of YT is that if you do not like the delivery you can go elsewhere and forgo the information being provided. Of course, if you sit through the video and then complain, you have wasted your time. If you complain of the delivery, publish your own video on the subject.

[@adamzhang3028]

Great quality. Should really be watched by more.

[@Moemorca]

melhor de todos, grande mestre!!! MACRO melhor explicação!!!!! Parabéns, obrigada

[@enriquediaz8939]

Lester THANK YOU VERY MUCH for sharing your experience and your knowledge so pleasantly, my perception of macrophotography has just changed with your presentation. Kindly regards from Mexico.

[@emmakelly1215]

Thank you! This is the best photography teaching I head!

[@BandH]

Thanks for watching!

[@thegroove2000]

The dreamier renditions look better to my eyes.

[@thegroove2000]

Some cameras have post focus.

[@pedromattossouza8219]

so now I want a OM or Fuji for macro eheh .. DOF !

[@doumepatrice7597]

Merci BH vraiment essentiel pour faire de la photo macro Merci Lester

[@youngmo77]

Salut. Sa présentation est trés informative.

[@chandana28]

I am glad that I came across this video, So many of my doubts got cleared as a beginner photographer

[@BandH]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jerryyu5122]

Great lecture. Thank you!

[@cashino]

Thank you :-)

[@markferrell2470]

Great job, I’ve learned so much, such a great teacher, please do more like this, as I look around at the Are you

[@randygreen007]

If you combine the Helicon Focus software you mentioned at 44:10 with a focusing rail by StackShot you’ll have a completely integrated system for studio work and even some outdoor work as well.

[@carlkristensen8398]

I just watched it - I split it up in several sessions - and very interesting. I am skilled on macro, but still learned new ideas/stuff. Only thing is the sound - very wooly, and that made it hard for me to hear it - I wear hearing aids. And do not have English as domestic language

[@andrewgifford7740]

Excellent, thank you

[@desmondgomez]

Great video

[@odarrien]

Awesome workshop.

[@dasp125]

If you take a photo at 50mm and then at 200mm but move the camera back so the composition remains the same then the DOF wont change, but if you don’t move the camera back then it will change the DOF, it will have the same effect as moving closer to your subject. So focal length does have an effect on DOF depending on how you use it.

[@jesuisravi]

thanks very much. Good info.

[@skakdosmer]

Just one correction: it's not true that you need an aperture ring when you reverse the lens. It's more convenient to have it, sure. But you can still set the aperture without it. On most Nikon lenses there’s a little lever at the back of the lens that you can push and tape down. And on Canon you first mount the lens the normal way, set the aperture, briefly half-press the shutter button, then press and hold the depth-of-field preview button, and while holding it you take the lens off. Now the aperture is set, and you’re ready to reverse mount. The viewfinder will be dark, but live view won’t, and you’ll probably want to use live view anyway. If your camera is too cheap to feature a dof-p button, the SET button can be customised.

[@jyarbor]

Re using canon FD lenses. If you have a mirrorless camera as a result of a shorter flange distance you can purchase an adapter that will let you use this mount. In general FD lenses have a manual iris as well as manual focus. As a result it will not work in full automatic mode.

[@EkWaqth]

Awesome

[@ShutterTech]

Great lesson! Thanks

[@efsu8374]

Question in depth of field in micro vs crop sensor vs full frame depth of filed ???? why not back off on full frame then crop? don't you get the same depth of field? see 34 mins into video. Thanks?

[@quebecer4605]

Very good video, but asking "what is this?" after 20 times gets annoying.

[@JefferyFernandez]

1" = 25.4mm not 24mm

[@1911geek]

Thank you goodness for the few speakers who speak traditional film language stop down the lens and open up. not smaller number larger number modern not academic photographic terminology

[@jockmcfrog3747]

More small sensor nonsense a crop is a crop it is not more dof it is not higher magnification it is a crop.

[@stevepalmer8226]

Cc

[@Bob63198]

"never should have let these people in because they are not too smart" ... sir, if you are trying to be witty or clever, you failed. If you are trying to be funny or witty or clever by using abuse in a comedic manner, you have to have the personality and presentation to carry it off. You, do not have these gifts. stick to your craft, photography as that is definitely one of them, however, comedy is not. I hope these people didn't have to pay to listen to this.

[@WaniMedia]

troll alert

[@AHobbistChannel]

Once is a joke, while using it for many of the images is just obnoxious. It has nothing to do with a lack of sense of humor.

[@mrrcassidy]

Fear not, no-one in the audience was offended on account of his jokes went clear over their heads. Do folks have to pay to get in or were they using it as a chance to get warm?

[@epgui]

I went through 49 minutes of mostly useless blah-blah before I learned something new (I never noticed that film plane mark). You could condense this 2-hour talk into 30 minutes.

[@youngmo77]

Au moins tu as appris quelque chose, de cette "torture videographique". Perso, j'ai énormemment appris, et découvert que, le monde de la photographie macro est fascinant.

[@martyzielinski2469]

BOOOOORING!