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Well thought out explanation, thanks

Hi from aussie...I often smile to myself whilst doing macro shots in the wild in summer. As I have on mosquito repellent yet am trying to photo them😅

Very informative video!! Thank you!

Great video!

Well, one very good thing about stacking, minimal if any noise. Question, you increase the flash output but you closed down the aperture a touch to f/14. It must have been the right amount.

Use a Balaclava & full gloves or biker gloves to reduce mosquito bites. This what i do i apply Anti-Mosquito creams on my hands & some parts of my neck & face before wearing a Balaclava & hand gloves to reduce Moquito bites.

I just made a comment on your latest video that I'd like to see a video about your camera and flash settings. I just found this video you made .This is so helpful. Thank you

Great video as always. I have to say watching you videos got me started into macro photography. I would love to see a video of exactly how you set up your flash and all the camera settings you use on the OM1. I have just started to play with the flash but I'm getting poor results. Thanks again for all the great video you do.

Nice photowalk, Michael. Always interesting to hear of your successes/struggles with macro, as we all have. That hemipteran face-on image is incredible. Thank you. Mosquitoes are bad everywhere. I'm in coastal Southern California, near original Disneyland. We have 26 species of mosquitoes in this area, plus deer flies and horse flies; can't find that info in the tourist brochures. I keep DEET in the car at all times.

As for image review I have turned it off in my Olympus cameras as I find it of little use, so cannot help there, especially as your issues seem to be intermittent. If I need to review the shot I just press the left arrow button for image review. That way I can examine it and not be limited to a particular time. Seems like a non issue. I had to laugh when you talked about cropping as a problem because of only 20mp. My wife's first digital camera had 4mp and mine, a DSLR, had 6mp. 35mm film was somewhere around 8-12mp. Software these days makes ISO and image size less relevant. I have enjoyed your channel and have purchased the Godox 860iii flash and Cygnustech diffuser because of this. I have the O-M1 and 90mm macro. As for mozzies, well I have lived with these my whole life in Australia and New Guinea. Long sleeves and some insect repellant usually works.

Try normal food oil for mosquitos and ticks. I have been using rapeseed oil for 35 years now and it newer fails. Extra virgin is best but don´t use deep frying oil. Lemon chest added is softening the smell a bit

Instagram is a soul destroying, art destroying populist online version of a dodgy tv talent show. So many brilliant images get zero pickup down to algorithms.

Excellent video. I agree with everything that you said. I used to love Flickr. However, one of my accounts was apparently deleted without any warning or explanation. So I will probably abandon this platform. If you find any great website for photo sharing, please tell me. I have thousands of good pictures that I would like to share with the world.

Hello my friend, thanks for your videos. I wanted to warn you to be very careful when using repellents that contain DEET because I had a problem with the buttons on my camera, the icons were erased because of that component. Nothing serious, just aesthetic but it would have been better if it didn't happen... Hugs from Argentina!

Wonderful photos, and a wonderful clip. Thanks for taking the time to put it together. Just a thought, because you mentioned cropping on your OM-1: have you tried using the hand-held hi-res mode with macro? There is a "wait for charge" for the tripod mode, but not for hand-held.

Be careful about using DEET around your camera gear. DEET melts plastic.

When u look close u can tell the sex of the mosquitos. If u cant see a banana they are females😅

Love the eyes on that tiny green insect

Love the eyes on that tiny green insect

Lovely video

Relaxing and inspirational as always Micael.

With 1/8 - is your flash able to create a 10-20 burst of photos?

the mosquito repellent you are using, do you find that smell also repelling the insect you want to shoot. I'm from Malaysia and dengue is a big problem here and I was told not to use any insect repellent coz it will scare them away. Did you had that problem ? TIA

I think the caterpillar, is one of the Burnet Moths, but I couldn't tell you which one. If the AK and Cygnustech diffuser are like the first concave diffusers I made, you can actually recover highlights up to nearly 2 stops over-exposed. It's not as important now as it used to be, but before the noise removal software was so good, it used to be important to get plenty of light. I started stacking, a very long time ago, about 18 years back, but then I gave up and went back to single exposures, as it was more fun.

Can't handle the thought of stacking anything but cash Micael! Single shot only on GH5, only natural light - and lovin' it. You have inspired and motivated me soooo much since picking up my first camera in 40 years. Thank you macro rockstar, keep hitting them bangers long distance friend! Greetings from the Boulder area in Colorado (high 90's already).

I have the EM1.3 and the instant preview works fine Frommemory when they first released the OM1 they took off the highlight/shadow display on the default playback view, and you had to go the the information display with the small image to see the highlight/shadow warnings. Not sure if they ever fixed that It appears OM mucked up the image playback a bit I also quiet often do not fill the frame, but for my purposes the quality is still fine

How can u shoot at 1/250 with a flash on the OM-1? For me, this only works up to 1/100. So I have set something wrong?

Good video Michael. I do not agree that cropping from the Oly files is a problem. I do it a lot. All the time, actually. Depending on the image, I crop to sqare format. Let's say I crop to 2700x2700 pixels. That makes a 7 mb image size. That is still enougt to make a print @ 23x23 cm, and 300 dpi resolution. You can easily go to 30x30 cm and some 210 dpi without any visible loss. And to be honest, how many prints of insects do one need? Since it will be mainly for the computerdisplay you can crop even further - unpunished...-and @f:13 or less not much stacking is needed, I agree.

Excellent work as usual 😊

Thanks Michael for telling me Ranox250 a few days ago. I got my Ranox250. It actually can turn a telephone lens to super macro.

Mosquitos are so rough in the United States Midwest. I bought a white long sleeve UV resistant shirt because they have an extremely harder time attacking me now, and the UV resistant is to stay cooler when the sun is out. And I wear jeans regardless because getting bit on the legs is the worst. They go for the hands and neck very rarely in my experience while wearing all of those clothing. I would rather be hot and somewhat sweaty than getting bit every 5 seconds. Average temp in the midwest for summer is around 85F/29C. Mosquitos will literally ruin macro walks if you dont prepare

Dear Micael, my em1 mkII doesn't have that kind of problem. Maybe it could be solved by doing a hard reset. There are some videos on youtube that show the procedure for OLYMPUS cameras. I'm sorry for your problem and I hope it can be solved. Thanks for all the beautiful videos, I learned a lot from your experiences. You really put blood into your passion 😂

Great video and photos as usual 👍 Is that v350 good enough for 90mm? I usually see everyone using v860 with 90mm zuiko 🤔

What do you really mean by "it works one in 10 times"? Like it doesn't show up at all? If yes, then I can say that I don't have that problem... Otherwise, can you explain what you are facing exactly?

Thank you for sharing, your images are always lovely and enjoyable to see. Keep up the work on the OM-1, I am getting better with my macro shots as well and every outing feels like an adventure. More bug hunting to come :)

I had a similar problem with picture preview on my OM-5. In my case, the picture preview wouldn’t turn off. It was greyed out on the menu and not available. I tried resetting the camera (multiple times) with no luck. The issue resolved itself a couple of days later when I was going through my lenses to make sure they were all updated (they were). That’s when I noticed that picture preview was suddenly selectable again. I’m not sure what happened. The best I can guess is that something in switching between so many lenses and going back-and-forth reset whatever weird data bit was toggled. I’m sorry I couldn’t be more specific with the fix, but the problem hasn’t reoccurred since. I hope this helps. Good luck.

@MicaelWidell Hi Micael..Great video!! You can also look underneath the leaf litter and and fallen limbs and branches laying in the forest. I encourage you to get off the path and dig around under the leaf litter and rotting logs/branches and underneath larger rocks that you are able to lift up. Just remember to place these back how you found them after the photo session. Good look with your macro subject searching. Have a great day!!

Hi @MicaelWidell. I haven't had any issues with the auto image preview that was an actual bug. But, what I have found, is that the auto-face sensor in the viewfinder will override image preview. If you're holding the camera too close to your face or body when the image preview pops up, it'll shut off the image preview. Try disabling auto EF switching.

What a nice relaxing video

Great work as usual. I envy you and your lush green countryside. I live in southern Spain where there is little green or flowers, it's mostly hot and dry and almost always windy in summer where 32°C - 45°C is normal. No early morning dew for dragonflies and sunrise is close to 7am.

Thanks for another great video! I went out this morning and got some shots of an orb weaver spider which I have not seen in a while in our area of West Virginia. I use a Canon 70D with EF100mm Macro f/2.8 USM lens. Also a Canon EX430 II Speedlite and Angler diffuser. I've been working with the speedlite and today the exposures were near perfect. I've learned a lot watching your YT channel, thanks!

Really lovely to hear your calm voice explaining how even you find some things difficult along with tips to overcome the problems! Thank you!

Do you think upgrading to the om1 is worth it if I have an em1 mk2

I can't wear shorts when I go out on photo walks, I get eaten alive by mosquitoes and other bugs

Be careful using insect repellent with deet around the plastic parts of your camera equipment. Deet tends to soften and corrode and melt plastics so if the deet is on your hands, it might damage your equipment. Instead, look at insect repellent with Picaradin.

You might find that the OM System preview function is buggy because you were taking pictures of bugs. :)

I often chill and have your videos on, while i am editing. Just purchased an OM-1 myself, and there are many features that are so good for macro. With my 60mm, Raynox and v350 it's really lightweight and fun to use!

Another great vid. You advice has been a huge help to me just starting out. The problem is insect photography is its like a drug. On my wildlife walks every morning I now carry my om-1 with the 60mm macro/flash/diffuser instead of my 300 f4. It’s in my backpack just in case though. Now thinking I need to add OM-1 II for wildlife and leave my current OM-1 setup for macro.

Is the caterpillar a cabbage white?

04:30 AS others have said, I think it's a caterpillar of the large white butterfly. Don't let it anywhere near your cabbages! 😁 Great images as always, Micael. Still can't figure out how you get by with 1/8 flash power. I haven't done the math to check the impact, but even considering the format differences (I'm using Nikon APC-S typically on F14) and the fact my flash units are the Godox TT350 (not the V) and a Nikon SB-700, I need at least 1/4 power nearly all the time. I tried the V350 and found it even less consistent than what I already had.