Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we're going to look at this goofy 
macro setup I put together on a
whim. I wanted to use what I had on a
hand. Do some macro photography...
and this is it.
At least some of it. I had a Canon EOS M50 camera. Two different sets of
extension tubes. EF-M and then also M42
mount with a M42 mount lens. This is
Asahi Super Takumar 50mm 
F/1.4 lens. Basically Pentax before they
were Pentax. Really nice simple normal
lens. I also had the smallrig cage and
two different brackets with two.. lighting..
pieces. So we have these simple LED
lights. They're bi-color. I was probably at
5200K in that case set to 75%
power on both of them. Simple setup, but
in the land of macro photography
I'm sure it's relatively tame. The main
goal was to see how it work out, and have
some fun with macro photography.
I took the rig out to my local state
park. Two different areas. One area had a
nice large pond. Tried to get some photos.
I wanted to get photos of sand, but it's
all blocked off with fencing. So I really
couldn't get much of that. But there were
a few different areas. It was extremely
windy, which made it challenging to get
focus and such.
Moved on to another area,
which was a little better.
Macro photography is so unique compared to
other styles or other types of
photography, in my opinion. Because you
move two steps and you have a new
subject. It's potentially very foreign
and very different than what we see in
everyday life. And it's just really fun
to take a crazy setup out and mess
around with it. With macro photography
there are a few things to keep in mind
when you want to do it. One is light. You
want to get as much light as possible
into the scene. Because you want to use
smaller apertures. I really couldn't lower 
my aperture too much in this situation
even with those two lights there. But I
tried to do it as much as I can because
you want more in focus. And when you're
doing macro photography you have
generally very thin depth of field to
work with. You can adjust your position
to get more generally in focus based on
what you're photographing. Like if it has
nice flat surface. Try to get that flat
surface on the main focus plane. But also
keep in mind: You got the light, you have
the small apertures, and focusing! So with
focusing I take the lens and have it
focus as close as it can. And then I just
use my hands. I use my arms. I use my
whole body to adjust where it's focusing.
It's relatively easy to tell where it's
focusing because it's generally so thin
depth of field.
As for the results I think they turned
out pretty interesting. But of course
with the lens. It's not super amazing
quality wise, and I couldn't use smaller
apertures a lot of the time. I just
didn't have enough light even when it
was outside with those extra lights. It
was a little challenging especially with
the lights that I use that are kind of
big and they restricted my movement up
close to surfaces and things of that
nature. But I think if you want to really
get an easier time with macro. One, use a
dedicated macro lens and then add
extension tubes to that. That way usually
maybe a 100mm lens or 150
even 200mm macro lens will give
you a lot more working distance in those
situations. But besides that it worked
relatively well. I hope you enjoyed this
little photo outing with macro
photography and this goofy looking setup.
I definitely enjoyed going out there and
taking photos with it.
I'm Scott from Photography Banzai.
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