head on dragonfly – another go

• WillW

  Member

  July 28, 2008 at 7:36 pm

  A couple of shots of a common darter from today after very slow stalking. light very low so it was difficult to get anything and the colours aren’t great. i tried a couple with the flash but got too much glare off the white reed stem. Any comments?

  

  

  crop of above shot
  

  Difficulty with these stalking shots is that you can’t use a tripod – i think it shows in that they are a bit on the soft side

  cheers

  Will
  oshead

  Participant

  July 28, 2008 at 7:45 pm

  Nice well composed shots Will. Just a little too dark. Pity the light was so bad. I sometimes use a bamboo pole clasped tightly between my left hand and the camera to help avoid hand shake on slow shutter shots.

  Edit: you could also up the ISO to around 400 and then remove it in post processing.
  Dave OS
  WillW

  Member

  July 28, 2008 at 8:14 pm

  Thanks Dave

  yes it went very dark this afternoon. the problem is that if it was sunny i probably wouldn’t have been able to get that close – all the more reason to get to grips with the flash.

  Will keep on persevering!

  Will