When Macro Photos Are Hard To Find! (Easy tutorial with settings and focus tips)

[@GordonRunklePhoto]

One of the things I find most fascinating about macro photography is that there are subjects literally *_everywhere_* no matter where you are! 📷👍

[@ch_boki]

Take uncommon shots of common areas, forest pathways you cross 100x times. That's what I've been doing. Great challenge, also I like to try to show off small things in a big world. Trying to figure out how to design the final piece in editing with colors and masks etc. Great inspiration! Thank you, cool content!

[@AndrewLanxonPhotography]

Thanks for watching!

[@NateLanxon]

Loved the focus on the snail and the shells. Every shell is unique in the world and macro is a great tools to showcase that. Enjoyed this.

[@AndrewLanxonPhotography]

Schnecken sind toll!

[@zhuanjifarms5050]

Toooo funny brah, having the same 'meh' feeling the last couple weeks, especially after the massive cool nights damsel/dragon die off...too dry for shrooms here in Colorado though. Love your approach and personality.

[@AndrewLanxonPhotography]

Thanks, much appreciated! Hope you get your vibe back and get out with your camera soon!

[@Hannemanneke]

Thanks Andrew, nice video and I like your explanations 😀 I’ve learned from those comments and still picking up ideas. And inspiration 👍 Walking around and not finding interesting subjects is what I recognize… But… just stop walking and start looking! Very often in a few square meters you can find a lot! When (finally) found a subject and playing around trying different views and setting very often my I catches other subjects close by… A few weeks ago I saw a dragonfly. And busy photographing that I saw a beautiful colored wasp spider. Than I started looking around me and found another six wasp spiders within two-three meters! Lucky me I guess… and probably also the time of the year, end of August… Now in september there are less flowers but probably more fruits, seed bulbs etc. which can be nice to photograph too, isn’t it?

[@gary.kenyon]

Great shots

[@xwhite2020]

Certainly a different approach to mine. I take about 300 photos in that time and delete about 98% in post.😅. Thanks for the video❤

[@AndrewLanxonPhotography]

That's normally how I shoot as well -- I did a macro shoot yesterday and took over 3,500 images! Granted most of those are deep focus stacks, but even so, I was liberal with the shutter button!

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

i shot fuji medium format for a few years - mainly landscape. never really considered it for macro as the lens is only a 1:2 magnification and also with the shallower dof the sensor gives. plenty of resolution for cropping though!

[@AndrewLanxonPhotography]

I'm so tempted to try and pick up a GFX 50R used. How did you get on with them for landscape?

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

@@AndrewLanxonPhotography they *the 50R and 100) were simply superb. probably the best IQ I've seen

[@chrisboxone3653]

I am using the 50r as my main camera and for 1:1 Macros I am using the Fringer F Mount Adapter on it and for example it works perfectly fine with the Sigma 150mm Macro (MF only). Only issue i have is a clearly visible vignetting in the corner.

[@adamzhang3028]

GFX 100 II owner here, using GF 20-35mm and GF 55mm for landscape, and Canon's RF 35mm f/1.8 + RF 85mm f/2 for macro (sometimes RF 16mm f/2.8 if it's really tight and I want more background). Had considered GF 120mm macro, but was held back by the maximum magnification and the maximum aperture (and the fact switching lenses can be a hassle in the field). Would you say you (also) much prefer the Canon system for macro? Have you considered trying to adapting the EF 100mm on a GFX body, and see if it's good enough to actually take advantage of the GFX sensor?

[@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism]

Almost like pre-macro shots, rather than macro. Like mini, close up compositions.

[@AndrewLanxonPhotography]

Yeah that's a good analysis. It's as close as I could get, but I'm happy to just consider these 'close up'.

[@markcamm5330]

Did it drive you mad the camera beeped like a microwave oven when you took a shot?

[@AndrewLanxonPhotography]

SO MUCH. It's only the 2 second timer thankfully. Otherwise it's fine. If it helps, I edited out a LOT of bleeps. You're welcome.

[@robintaylor7374]

My exact thought!

[@iankellam6440]

Hi Andrew. I am fairly new to macro photography, and watching this I think I might be missing something. Sure the joy is that practically anything looks good when magnified? I still get a kick photographing fallen leaves and the suchlike on the ground. Is that going to wear off soon? Great vlog BTW.

[@AndrewLanxonPhotography]

Thanks for watching! You're absolutely right up to a point -- the joy of macro certainly is in seeing a new side to mundane things (crispy leaves, tree bark etc) that suddenly become great images when viewed up close. But I think what I'd done here is go out with high expectations of seeing all kinds of things and spent the first two hours simply walking around not really being inspired to look deeper. But I also come up against the problem that I'm not only taking macro photos, but also having to try and create compelling videos around them and a fairly recent video of mine focused on what else I can shoot when I don't find compelling subjects and I was keen to not make this video seem like too much of an echo of that. The nature of doing these videos means I have to try and shake things up, even if it feels a bit artificial to me.