How to photography flowers in woodland – macro photography
How to photography flowers in woodland – macro photography
It isn’t really spring until I have spent some time in a woodland photographing the wild flowers there.
In this vlog, I’m in a woodland in North Wales, searching for wild spring flowers with my macro lens.
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Hi Damian, I really enjoyed your vlog on taking photographs of wild flowers, I must admit I do get rather annoyed when I watch some other vloggers referring to heather as that purple stuff and gorse as yellow stuff with spikes. So I for one would love you to do some more vlogs on wildflower or flower photography. Keep the good work up.
That’s a different video, and very enjoyable, used to do this when I had my Nikon with macro lens, but now have Fuji system, lovely for landscapes, but for flowers only have 55-200, but works ok for me, macro lens a bit pricey now, thanks for sharing Damian.
Damian,
Liked your processes and the final images were excellent. Thanks. I was in Rhyd Ddu on the weekend photographing bluebell carpets near the railway. Could learn a thing or two from you as my resulting images were not what my eyes saw!!
Hi Damian. Great to see you back to doing a woodland vlog. I’ve had three cracking days this week capturing bluebells (they’re fully bloomed down here in South Wales), dog violets and wood sorrel. Your images are outstanding – love the lighting and the composition. That’s a great tip about the hat ! I carry different coloured A4 cards to use for the same purpose. I’ve really enjoyed this vlog Damian so please consider doing more woodland episodes. Many thanks for sharing.
Yes Damian please more wildflower & insects also Macro pictures, enjoy your vlog’s.
beautiful images and a lovely, informative video. Thanks.
Do you ever do mushroom macro photography?
Excellent vlog, more of the same please.👍
A very enjoyable vlog, I would like to see more of your macro shots and tips.
I would like to see more macro because I found this video
very interesting
Great video and images as usual Damian
Greatly enjoyed the video. Would appreciate vids on macro for flower, insects and fungi. Interested in how you make it not "too big in the frame" for a macro photograph. Another great production Damian thanks>.
Very interesting vlog Damian. Definitely expanded my knowledge of photography. Thanks for sharing.
Perfect timing, I’m heading off to the woods this morning in search of bluebells, great tips thank you for shaering👍
I love iT 👌
great vid, would like to see more mace work please
The third picture was the best of a fantastic bunch! Thx for sharing this withus👍
More of these please. I was glad to see this one Damian. I am a landscape photographer but I have recently taken up macro myself so I am absorbing information and techniques now. I did have a comment and a question. I have been taking shots lately of parts of flowers rather than the entire flower. One thing I learned was to take an establishing shot of the flower in situ before magnifying the parts. I was getting good shots of anthers and stamens but I was so close, I couldn’t identify the flower when I wanted to look it up. I now take in situ shots first. The question has to do with the camera. I am a Nikon shooter so don’t know Canon cameras very well but I think the 7D is an APS-C camera? What is your opinion on full frame versus APS-C for macro? It seems there are a lot of opinions on both sides of that question so I wondered what you thought?
My favorite photos are your artsy ones. Love the soft focus around the edges. That’s what I am trying to capture..
Excellent presentation. Thank you.
Hi Damian,
Just discovered you and your very enjoyable vlogs today. I’ve subscribed and I’m looking forward to your next vlog while catching up with the previous ones. Thank you for explaining how you compose and all the tips.
Sheila
Enjoyed that. Wonderfully isolated flower. Cheers.
I fancy entering some flowers in my club comps next year.great vlog as always
Yes, show more wildflower vlogs. TFS Damian
You vlog really nicely in all ways with lots of detailed tips. Yes please, more videos like this one., I love macro in nature.
Hi. Can you please pm me where that place is. I have wanted to do the wild garlic for ages. Or take me with you mate would be wicked
I’ll have to remember to look for situations where the sun is backlighting the flowers. You have some lovely images there. At this time of year this type of photography is a serene alternative to landscapes.
Please stay well. Enjoy your insight. I live where there are many wild flowers. Your guidance is appreciated.
Enjoyed the Vlog Damian, A different side to you, and a promising location, would love to visit there and shoot some of the flowers, where about in N Wales is is please, and would like to see more of this stuff as very limited in vlogs
Nice images Damian, never considered macro. Would you get a similar depth of field with a 70-200 telephoto lens?
Would absolutely love to see more of your nature work, keep up the good work and thanks for making your videos a great source of inspiration.
Macro is my absolute favourite aspect of photography, really enjoyed this Vlog.
What tripod are you using? I can get mine as low as yours but I don’t have that arm so I am always struggling to get a decent position without damaging any flowers in front of the one I want to shoot.