My First Demoiselle Damselflies!! - Macro Photography

Follow along as I get my first photos of Banded Demoiselle Damselflies, and talk about my technique along the way.

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My Macro Gear:
📷 Fujifilm X-H2
🔎 Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO
🔎 Laowa 25mm F/2.8 2.5-5x ultra macro
🔦 Nikon SB-900 Flash

Filmed on:
📷 Lumix DC-G91
🔎 Olympus 12-60mm f/2.8 pro

Music: 'Demoiselle' by Tobias Tinker, used with permission.

#macrophotography #insectphotography #wildlife

[normanvanrooy]

I really enjoy your videos. Your relaxed style is such a welcome contrast to many zippy fast cut videos on YouTube. Your music in the background is soft and gentle. Visual composition is excellent as well.

I enjoy the hunt…a very primordial feeling and then the reveal. It’s what stories have captivated in the human imagination for ever.

[petersterling]

I've been a Widely Published Photographer in Extreme Sports for 38 Years and I find your Videos and your Work Excellent in Every way!! Thanks lot for your Dedication and Hard Work bringing these Videos to the World!!

[musiqueetmontagne]

Super images again Alexis, the detail and colours, especially hand stacked in the field are really tremendous. Thanks for sharing these.

[ThomasSchwarzFotografie]

Perfect focus stacking photos, the blue one with yellow background is amazing. Thanks for sharing 😉👍

[Namaste..]

Always a treat to see that you’ve posted a new video. Wonderful images. The venation on these damselflies is just stunning!

[joshashdown]

Your videos are great to watch. Keep of the outstanding work!

[iagopritchard]

Excellent video, your work is always so professional, well done!

[goodsick]

I love how relaxing your videos are and always so fun to wait and see how the shots turned out. I also really like how you put the bloopers in the outro to show people that were not perfect. Many want to do youtube but scared of not being thats ok!

[SlavaVeres]

🇨🇦 Greetings from Canada! I believe we have those in Ontario 🦋 beautiful insects! Great photos!

[ИК-Карлсон]

Hi Alexis… yours macro images are amazing !
In one of your first videos you touched very shortly on your focus stacking technique…
Would you make a video, like a tutorial, where you explain in details your technique and how flash is being used (high sync, or just single shot)… thank you very much in advance…

[raneolsen]

Hello from Finland! I really like your videos, but I have a small wish: Please keep the whole picture visible for at least a couple of seconds. Now when I'm getting ready to look at the image in whole, it disappears as soon as it gets its full size and that is a little annoying :) Keep up good work!

[NaturallyCuriousUK]

Beautiful subject. Lovely presentation and edit. Stunning results! Can't help but feel that in-camera focus stacking is a bit of a cheat, but you clearly have the skill and fieldcraft to have gotten great images yourself without it, but if you've got it you might as well use it! 👍👍👍

[krappiekiller]

Great as usual. By the way, where did you get the raynox holder for what appears to be a cygnustech?

[utunnelindia]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks. However, which microphone you are using. Further, can we get the same quality photos with fullframe cameras and 105mm Macro lens.

[markanthonydaniels]

Hi, Enjoy your video.May I ask how you take your stack. Does your camera do it or do you move in and out TIA

[disjenmgn]

Always nice videos, thx! But: When I find in the early morning those species and even if I point to them, they fly away, and transporting them on a Here it is impossible for sure. And how do you keep your camera still taking stacks when your arms spread in front of you?

[mechanicalmindmusic]

Could you please tell me how you do focus bracketing using Laowa lenses, given that they are manual lenses?

[mickCummings-xu]

I don't know if it's me or my gear but I can't get anywhere near this?