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Postby Slider on Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:09 pm

I do hope I'm not boring you but here we are. Another in my continuing dragonfly quest.

1/500s f/10 ISO 800

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Postby big pix on Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:15 pm

Your best yet.......
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:17 pm

Excellent stuff! and I agree with Big Pix, you just keep getting better!
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Postby Mal on Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:21 pm

big pix wrote:Your best yet.......


:agree: :agree: :agree:
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Postby Oneputt on Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:30 pm

Excellent Mark. I didn't realise just how colourful they were.
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:37 pm

Mark

Your quest is complete. You can't possibly do better than this (can you?). The colours are great, the focus spot on and the bit of twig adds scale wonderfully.
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Postby Slider on Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:48 pm

Thanks Folks. I was pretty happy with this one, but, I still want one in flight.

The quest continues..

Sorry, Stubbsy :lol: :lol:
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Postby big pix on Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:50 pm

you will have to float about 3 to 4 feet off the ground and move very very quickly......... the bad news ......... well you know........
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Postby Bretski on Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:00 pm

MAte that one is awsome... I'd say you best yet as well...
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Postby Raskill on Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:04 pm

Have to agree, the best I've seen yet. DOF is excellent, with the background nice and blurred, colours are great to, the red tail against the backbground really stands out. Must have taken ages to find a red tailed one :wink: The image is also really sharp, with the hairs on the legs nice and crisp.

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Postby marcotrov on Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:06 pm

Your right Mark the spur on leg number 2 about a third of the way up the shaft seems a little bent to me.... back to the drawing board :lol: :lol:
Bloody beautiful shot my friend the composition, colour and sharpness are terrific. Just love the red dash on its abdomen. :wink:
You should be gathering yourself a great series on the dragonfly. I can just see a new coffee table book in the making. Although I'm not sure how it would go down with the coffee and tea cakes :lol:

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Postby avkomp on Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:30 am

another great dragon fly shot.

again one of the better ones i have seen.
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Postby avkomp on Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:32 am

the only possible improvement would be if it was possible not to get the eyes looking as they do, more diffusion or something?? but I realise that it is an effort just go capture one of these suckers.

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Postby PALL on Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:18 am

DOF is very good.a good closeup with Sig200mm but light reflection on his eyes are distracting a little,is it flash?well Sigma lens are realy realy good quality,i uses 105mm version.hope to see more from you later.
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Postby Matt. K on Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:03 am

Outstanding!
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Postby Slider on Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:45 am

Thanks for the comments folks.

It is a bit strange the way the eyes look on these things but no flash was used and it was a tad overcast.

Maybe they concentrate the light somehow. Interesting.
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Postby mikephotog on Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:51 am

You would have to strap a camera to the back of another dragon fly to get a better shot. Amazing !
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