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Your ‘bad’ shots are better than my best ones! 👍

This is a great thing to do when you feel like you suck and you're not getting better in photography. Going back to your old photos will most certainly reveal to you that your skills have indeed improved over the years. Gives a nice boost in confidence and motivation to carry on! Thank you Micael!

I love that you critique you own work from your start.

I've done about 4 sessions of macro photography over the last month or so, I'm slowly getting into it and having a lot of fun. I've been watching your videos for a while but I decided to take the plunge and buy a macro lens. Your pointers have helped me to skip over the really newbie mistakes I think. I'm producing images closer to the end of what you show here. So I wanted to say thank you for the knowledge, you're a good teacher!

When you were commenting that photo of ladybug at around 12:50... I feel so identified. Let me tell you this lol I was in the farming fields trying to photo stuff, and I see a flower with something weird on it, I tried to focus it but I didn't pay much attention, I thought it was just maybe some dirt because it didn't move. Later at pc I zoom on it and I realize it was a camouflaged spider eating an insect!! Damn, the feeling of having catched this even if the result was blurred was great, but at same time it feels like wasted chance because if I had noticed I would have tried to make a good photo!! I take this comment to thank you for your videos, you are being of great help for my macrophotography journey! Still a noob but I hope to take good photo like yours overtime!

Great video, not many photographers will show their old photos :)

My macro lens is on the way and I’m trying to learn from his older mistakes as much as possible before I start shooting. It will just take lots of practice though but I’m ready!

It was a great video! And I can definitely relate to the happiness that beginners feels when they get the shot, reminded me of when I began shooting haha

Hi Micael! I really like your "messy" flower and wildlife photos :-D, for me they look like "nature architecture". They are gorgeous, really great!

Excellent and honest critique of your work. I am definitely a beginner as taking shots like you were in 2016

I'm a beginner in the photography, I look at your videos a Lott. I took my first picture two months ago.. right now I'm getting better every time I go out. Mostly thanks to your videos. Ik really like your videos whit real human stuff.. not only the perfect pictures but also the mistakes..... thnx for sharing your progress. (Sprry for my bad English haha)

Thanks! My beginner shots have been drastically improved because of your videos :)

Those snails of the end of the video! For me you naild it on the las 2 or 3 snails.

Great timing as I have some extension tubes delivering in a few days. You've given some wonderful composition thoughts and things to look out for. Should help my learning curve. Thanks!

Interesting journey we take with macro. Thank you for posting this video. I did a little test with some people that look at my photos. It was some shots of a Daffodil, I processed the shots to be closer to the expected yellow color and then I duplicated the set of photos with a muted saturation based on a LUT. The ones with the muted tones LUT were the winners. Makes me wonder if people have grown tired of over saturated images. I have a tendency to not use the saturation slider that much.

Lärorik och underhållande video! Alltid intressant att analysera vad som funkar och inte.

Really great video. Helps me a lot. Plz make a second video. Editing some old photos would be also nice.

13:18 i believe the same, but if you look it with an artístic perspective, the composition become the most important thing, and its there when you see the mistake... im glad that peoole like you share experiences. I wish you take more macro photos with M4/3. Thanks!

Hi Michael thanks for sharing your experience. I am a really beguiner 21:43 on macrophoto. I would appreciate the link to the video you mention for learning using the flash. Thanks in advance.

Your channel is very good! I’m starting in macro and it has helped me a lot !

hi really good informative video I'm just getting back into photography (coming from the age of using film) always had a passion for macro though but "back in the day" macro was very difficult and expensive to do properly and having to wait a week!! till your film was developed to see the results. only to find out most of the shots had to be "binned" just made me loose interest so gave up after awhile and concentrated on just general photography.but recently I started to look at the new Olympus range of small micro 4 thirds omd Digital cameras and was blown away by the macro shots that you can achieve just by using one lens the 60mm f2.8 and the image stabilisation in the body of the camera allowes incredible hand held shots at 1.1 and more in super sharp detail can't wait to start using it this summer.

Brilliant video. Lots of useful tips and lessons. Thank you.

Hi Micael Thanks very much for all your videos. I have an om-1 and looking to get into macro! should i get the Olympus FL-900R Flash or a Godox VV350. The reason why i was thinking of the Olympus is because of the full compatibility and weather proofing in Ireland it rains a lot. the Godox maybe smaller. and the remote triggering is a bit better... the recycling time for the Olympus Flash is very good i can get both at the same price What do you think?

Thanks for sharing i learn something new about macro photography

Pls can you advise on the diffuser you are using? A really helpful video, thanks

Interesting journey ! I am trying to focus on macro too. Got my Loawa and MP-E . Getting serious :D

Hi =) Can you tell me what the difference is between a Macro and Micro lense. Do they pretty much do the same thing? Thanks! I love your videos, they are so easy to follow. I am getting into taking photos of cannabis, which would you reccommend?

If you think those are bad you need to see mine 😩. My aim this year is to find a good defusing system for my speed light though some appear good they can be expensive. Please keep up the great advice especially when ‘out on location’.

Great video, thanks!!! I do like making macro photos. But a real begginer... Do you have a video that shows your flash gear?

12:35 the plant here is actually rgb XD (nice video by the way)

I love to increase vibrance and saturation too. I'll try out your tip to adjust the white balance. Do you have any tips on how to see the lenses inside the eyes of a bee? Kinda struggle with this one.

Thank you very much for all the good advice. 👌👍

Another great video thanks Micael. Squarespace!, Might have to give them a go. ;-) Be Safe Be Well

Perfect timing, my Laowa 25mm came yesterday!

Another awesome video.

Well done! TFS!

May I ask why the exposure is so massively boosted on all of the photos? Did your camera have metering problems or am I missing something?

Thanks for sharing.

Awesome 👌 channel 👏 great job way to go! New subscriber here.

Great video. Thanks.

I voted for this!

I loved this. Thank you very much. BTW you can make It as long as you like for me. 👍

Thank you

Great video! I have just received extension tubes. Is there a forum online to post and get feedback?

but on mirrorless camera how see through evf if we narrow the aperture and increase our shutter speed. screen turns completely black as evf don't show flash adjustment in view finder?

Hello Micael, I enjoyed your video. Helpful for beginners like me. What lens and camera were you using in these early shots?

First, you sound better when you're drinking beer............or maybe you sound better when I'm drinking beer...........hmmmmm...........anyway, we all need to occasionally travel back in time and look at what we've done to get a sense of how far we've come...............

As a macro starter this is very helpful ! Getting good focus is my main problem! Any tips?!

For beginning it is ok. Little bit of cropping and editing it would be a nice photos.. Live your videos.

Photograph macro subjects at eye level.

What flash did you use at that time. Camera built in or...

Thanks for sharing. That takes some courage. Hopefully you learned something too. I know I did.

Micael widell what camera do you use ?

Hallo Micael.please tell me which camera is better to use a NikonD7100 or Nikon D3200 camera with a Sigma 105mm 1:2.8 DG macro lens with HSM?

I can empathise with this completely and cringe at my own early attempts. It's a lovely morning today and as we're all confined to our homes with the covid-19 lock-down, I think I'll just see if my batteries are charged then venture into the back garden to find out what's around...

I went back and deleted half my photos after this 😕

Maybe you could criticize the photos of other photographers?

Do you ever go back to "fix" past photos or do you believe that they were a product of their time?

I like your videos Micael, but you need to slow down with ads, I don't have big problem with that but you have too many and too long ads.

I think you're being too hard on yourself. I like a lot of the ones you criticized regarding saturation. imo its just a stylistic choice. Thanks for this video tho it helps me with critiquing my own work

"Pixel beep" - click baits.

four ads in the first 12 mins, stopped watching.