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Dragon fly
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Hi Dessie,
62 views and not one comment. Its happening more and more so I ask that you do me a favour for commenting on your image and that is that you have a look through the site and find another 2 images which have had a lot of views and no comments and give a comment yourself and maybe we can start the ball rolling again :)
Now to your image. This is a pretty good capture considering the Dragon Fly is in flight. You have captured the detail in the wings spot on. If I was to change anything about this I would crop it slightly behind the dragon fly so as to introduce it into the rule of thirds thereby giving it space to “fly into”. It is pretty central at the moment though I fully accept that when photographing an insect in motiono you are just happy to get a decently exposed and focussed image. I love the DOF here too.
If you have a genuine interest in photographing these creatures then you should have a look at this site. http://www.theremarkableimage.com/?page_id=115″ onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false; it is by a former President of the IPF, Mark Sedgewick. He has come out to our camera club (Malahide ) and shown us some of these images he is really into these creatures and photographing them so you could get some ideas from him.
Again, well done.
Mark S.
Cheers Mark i spent 2hrs trying to get this was just happy it was in focus
as someone who has just bought a macro lens and has become aware of the difficulty and frustration this particular branch of photography involves ..i have to say im amazed you got the little sucker in focus !! seriously how did you do it ? you cant have been more than 6-8 inches away from him! did you use manual focus ? i’ve just acquired a 2nd hand tamron 90mm, its a good sharp lens but the auto focus leaves alot to be desired and definitely would not have been able for your dragon fly …so well done !
jodal1975 wrote:
as someone who has just bought a macro lens and has become aware of the difficulty and frustration this particular branch of photography involves ..i have to say im amazed you got the little sucker in focus !! seriously how did you do it ? you cant have been more than 6-8 inches away from him! did you use manual focus ? i’ve just acquired a 2nd hand tamron 90mm, its a good sharp lens but the auto focus leaves alot to be desired and definitely would not have been able for your dragon fly …so well done !
Jodal this picture was taken with canon 300 2.8 sports lens i studied the flight pattern of the fly for a while up at the place where these are i noticed if you put something different near the pond the dragon fly will come and hover and check it out so i placed a length of bamboo at the edge of the pond and waited hope this helps Cheers Dessie
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