Nature Photography on day and night time

[ATAchunchin]

Hello there:
I live surrounded by nature and I just purchased a Panasonic Lumix, my first real camera. Cameras are expensive in this country so I never had anything better than a Kodak Easy Share. I have been taking thousands of pictures with both cameras but I definitely need all the advice I can get. 
I specially want to know how to get great macro pictures and pictures of all the bioluminescent fungus, mushrooms, larva and worms. I think they are the coolest but I have never been able to get a picture of any of them.
I also need to improve taking pictures of mushrooms.

Help!!!!!

[hvbemmel]

Look on Google for macro photography. There are multiple tutorials ther like https://photographylife.com/macro-photography-tutorial  

[Kevin Childress]

Hello, ATAchunchin.  

I would like to help any way that I can, but unfortunately there is no simple answer to your question. There are many individual topics involved in finding what works best for you with your camera. I assume the Panasonic camera is a Lumix DMC-FZ70. Can you confirm that, please?

Clearly you're primarily trying to improve your close-up photography, whatever the subject may be. I'm not sure what you consider to be "great macro pictures" but if you're talking about bugs/insects, I can tell you that good macro photography of bugs/insects can be extremely difficult in the wild. Live subjects typically do not cooperate very well and the slightest movement can result in an un-sharp image. For really good macro photography of bugs/insects, you are better served to collect dead specimens and take them indoors where you can take all the time you need and can control all of the factors involved with creating a sharp image. 

Photographing fungus/mushrooms in the wild is a different story. You can create gorgeous images with the Lumix DMC-FZ70 as long as you invest the time needed to get it right. And to really get it right, you'll need to understand a few of the manual controls on that camera, especially how the manual focus works. I found this YouTube video that should demonstrate practical use of the manual focus. It is critical to keep the camera steady when using manual focus. Do you have a tripod to support the camera? 

It is typically best to place the camera at the same level of the fungus/mushrooms. So if the fungus/mushrooms is on the ground, you need to find a way to get the camera very low to the ground. Not all tripods can be adjusted to lay nearly flat. To get really low to the ground, you can use a small bean bag or sand bag to support the camera, which will actually give you a lot of flexibility in creating a good composition. 

A lot of people that use that style of camera also use extension tubes and close-up filters. I would recommend that you research products similar to this set of close-up accessories to understand how they are used. 

I'll leave the discussion here for now and we can continue as you choose.

[© Tom Cooper]

I believe the most important accessory you can have for macro photography is a solid tripod.  A tripod can improve almost any photography, but for macro, it is like a requirement.

[maihoangthuy]

macro shooting, you need to start from the smallest - macro lens. Macro lens is dedicated lenses for close-ups with a magnification of 1: 1 (in other words, 1.0x magnification) and at the ideal focal length range of 85 - 105mm. But if your lens is not in the ideal focal length, 40mm or 60mm example is, you do not worry, because the focal length affects only you can easily observe, easy to focus the subject or not.

1,Select the appropriate macro lens device

For the selection of technical equipment, the selection ratio of macro lens magnification factor is extremely important. Macro lens magnification ratio standard is 1: 1, if the ratio is less than 1: 1 lens mean it is not a macro lens. Also, you need to select the lens focal length to suit each type of entity. For example, the lens has a focal range of 50 - 65mm, you can capture fabric, wool, jewelry or small mechanical parts, electronic. But if lens focal length of 85 - 180mm lens, this is great for you to take flowers and insects.

There is a fact in the choice of lens is a lens with a shorter focal length will be small in size, lightweight and cheaper prices.

2.Manual focus adjustment

A beautiful photos always must have clear criteria and photos are sharp. Criteria for macro photos and also to distinguish them from other types of images are external factors there are two other criteria such as depth of field (DOF). To increase the depth of field you need to be as small as possible aperture and autofocus by hand - technology used to sharpen the region where the object.

Recipes for you to get a "soi cau" easy focus is not enabled automatic mode of the machine that is the pose. You try to put the machine back, who poured forward direction, there must be more easy to focus not it?

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