Macro Photography – Some Surprising Results!

In this second episode of Karl Taylor’s two part Macro Photography tips videos we actually see the results generated by the various lenses, cameras and accessories discussed in the first video.

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hawkmannn says:

good vid

roosmarijn2010 says:

Great tips !

45Blackjack says:

it did kinda sound like he said bald head instead of ball head 😉

MAXSOL69 says:

how about 3 extensing tubes in that dedicated macro lense and external light source?

oppi96 says:

Impressive!
Want to know how close you can get with the nice expansive macro lens and the extention tube`s combined! 😛

ThaLynx says:

these are like underground secrets that no pro photographer will ever tell you

gbbeauty says:

except the last lens, I built myself a macro lens and that is like play. … and have the power like lents from min 5.38 🙂

bnewton81 says:

I use a reverse macro ring. It allows me to get amazing shots for the price of the ring ($8+/-). I am having one issue. My images are really fuzzy if I zoom on them. The images are 12MP. They are big, but they look their best at 25% size. I was just wondering if anyone knows why this happens.

THEORYskates says:

extension tubes…a tenner! :)

TheChrisSchaefer says:

you’ll see atom 😉

AXNJXN1 says:

Karl, this was the absolute *best* breakdown video I’ve seen covering all the potentials here for macro ‘lens’ shooting. Excellent job! Cheers!!

blankplanet says:

thanks for extension tubes karl

PBVillam says:

anybody tried Using that lens for portraits? youd probably see what the models is thinking… and her neurons and stuff….

CaptainOgres says:

maybe ur picture isnt focus accurately? or your aperture is to wide ? normally macro people uses very small F-number and compensate light loss with a flash gun to achieve maximum depth of view, as you can see from the MP65, the 3 letter TWE only 1.5 of the letter is showing the rest of the area around it is blurred

dearlover101 says:

the photos in the background are so funny!!! 😀

IEmilyI says:

Would it also be possible to use the tele lens together with the extension tubes? If yes, would the resluts be good?

vikodavid7 says:

I like the lens its great. I have a question- I have seen better pics from this lens on full frame cameras compared to crop, is there a reason why?

GeorgeBonez says:

Amazing vid for someone like me at my stage in the game. Thank you for posting..

mohamed mostafa says:

very nice video
and can u tell us the brand of the extender and the sizes
cause i have the canon 18-55mm and i want put this extenders as u make in the video its very good idea

BrandonDorito says:

I really wanted him to do add another topic for macro “Reverse ring”

How many megapixels do you need to get a picture the size of the one in the background?

assassin00456 says:

Any tips on extension tubes? I only find rather expensive ones..

Really Thanks , Amazing Review , It’s help Me Very Much .

sagargrg261 says:

very useful video and I just want to know can I use the extension tube in 18-135mm lens..or not reply me in sagargrg26@hotmail.com thank you

DutchRedjonOVLOGS says:

@ 9:00 what would happen if you put the deticated macro lens and the three extention tubes on the camera in combination with eachother?

bigbangAT says:

You will see into the future?

Lee Darmanin says:

Whats the plastic clip thing under the macro lens?

toolfreak4157 says:

What about inverting the lens with the extension tubes

alandjani1 says:

that extention tubes on the vid are auto focus you can by the manual focus for 15 dollar maximum and do the same thing , same quality !!

customlumina says:

should try the telephoto with the extension tubes

richyearle007 says:

A very detailed video..You have forgot to mention that you can reverse the 18-55 lens for a much more detailed macro…..cheers

stevarass says:

is there any trick to control the apperture if our lens does not have an aperture lens?
because these cheap tubes dont have electric contacts.

amazinggadgets says:

Great video!

T3hTroll says:

Three 1.5x extenders on a 75-300mm o_o.

Drmikekuna says:

Very helpful video… thanks!

xjoncamposx says:

Buy some kenko tubes that do have electronic contacts. If you are reversing a lens, then you could do a trick, but I’ll leave your response to explain that.

agoenk909 says:

Lens extension create less distance on macro photoshot, less light. Noted!

essellar says:

It’s not a “plastic clip thing”, it’s a tripod mount. Normally, you’d mount this lens to the tripod and just attach the camera to that. Most longer/heavier lenses have their own tripod mount (and it’s a rotating ring on the lens, so you just loosen a knob and swivel the camera to shoot horizontally or vertically).

essellar says:

I’m afraid I have to disagree here. Much of my wildlife (songbird) photography was done using a 400mm lens with an extension tube to get inside the lens’s closest focusing distance. A scant few millimetres of extension (12mm or 25mm bellows draw) makes no appreciable difference to the effective aperture (it’s less than a third of a stop at 25mm), while the same extension on an 18mm lens means a full stop (at 12mm, or three stops in the case of the 25mm tube) of compensation.

Nanners17 says:

you would probably see cells lol

Anthony Tran says:

What’s the downside of using extension tubes that do not maintain electrical contact between the body and the lens? Should I steer clear of these tubes?

wishie197 says:

Get a cheap EF 35-80mm, remove the front group of elements. Very cheap (and crude) macro lens, albeit with NO focusing in the lens (you have to physically move to get focus) but you can get excellent results.

frogmarch100 says:

excellent tutorial, I was always curious as to what exactly everything does. this was fab.

almegalli2 says:

Thank you very much.

incrediblemacroblog says:

I’m new in the photography world, but a mounth ago I started doing macro photography.I must say, this video was very helful to me ! If you’d like to check out my videos… feel free.

joantbak says:

Great stuff Karl have you tried the Raynox range of Macro lens attachments? what’s your opinion of them as on a budget starting out they can give some great results at a very good price.

Question!

What kind of magnification will i yield ??

When using a 70-200L f4 with those 3 (i presume kenko) tubes combined @ 68mm extension 12+20+36 (is that right?) on a 600D ??

Grtz from The Netherlands !

vagepol says:

Once again a very nice vid Karl! congrats! but i have a question.. why it’s macro photography and not micro photography? It’s obvious that we photographing small in size or ..micro.. objects with these lences.
The root and origin of the word “makro” is Greek and means “μακρύ=long” or “μακριά=far”

Nitin Kumar says:

what will happen if you’ll attach the extension tubes to the macro lens?!

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