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Macro Photography Tutorial – How to Shoot on White Background in the Field



From the rainforests of Ecuador, I use a Canon 100mm macro and MP-E 65mm macro lens to demonstrate how I get clean, studio-like photos of insects in the field. For more of my photography, check out:
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Filmed by Danny Hoyt, Produced by Phil Torres

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35 responses to “Macro Photography Tutorial – How to Shoot on White Background in the Field”

  1. Good video but I find it so odd to shoot on a white background. The end video shots of it on a leaf looked so nice. But maybe that's just a personal preference of mine. If I do have to shoot indoors I bring some plants in with me to place the insect on.

  2. This is one of the best macro videos I have seen as, as far as I concerned he does nothing wrong. I think though he could do a better job explaining why those settings. I would also use the lean in method with the 100mm as well. I have both of these lenses and I find I get better focus with lean back and forth than the auto focus on the 100mm.

  21. awesome video, fantastic little insect… by the way, I shoot with extension tubes with an 18-55 (crappy kit lense) o an old manual prime and manual flash, have a modded miner headlight to focus and a custom made softbox… it's pretty difficult for someone at first to use this setup, but once you get used to, you can have pretty good results… keep the good work, greeting from Venezuela _ 500px.com/myumarfoto

  24. BTW a lot of cameras won't sync to the flash at 1/250th and you'll need to slow down a bit (unless it has, and you use, a high-speed sync mode which reduces flash power). Your 70D just makes it. Also a 1Dx mkII as mentioned in the overlap has a lot bigger pixels so will have less magnification.

    One trick people can use to go beyond the usual macro lens' 1x limit is to add a lens like the Canon 250D or Raynox DCR250 to the front of the lens, they're a lot cheaper than the MPE65.

    Plus you used manual flash power rather than automatic with some compensation?

  30. Very instructive, thanks. One question, which video camera you used for filming this?? I ask because that weevil looked very crisp when focused and with good field of depth

  33. So cool! I need to invest in an actual macro lens, my set up is really scrappy but it works. It's an old Pentax 35mm film camera prime lens on a reverse ring on my Sony a6000 and if I want more magnification I put on some extension tubes. Everything's manual haha. Love the vids keep em coming 👏 👏 👏

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