bug eyes

• elven

  Participant

  July 17, 2006 at 2:03 pm

  Had a great time this weekend down by Glendalough and came back up by Blessington Lake where we saw loads of these Damselfly… the little buggers would land on a blade of grass and as soon as I got close enough, they kept flying off again. So I used my 80-200mm with one of the extension tubes, and managed to shoot this from a few feet away. It is cropped fairly heftily too. But it’s still better than I would have expected, usually anything with my tele zoom is affected by my seriously shaky hands…

  
  Photo page on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/julieodonnell/190357501/
  Mark

  Keymaster

  July 17, 2006 at 4:42 pm

  These guys are very difficult to shoot without a flash gun. Looks sharp to me.

  The brightish background in the middle might be a bit distracting, but thats a minor comment to be honest.

  Its a hard shot to get, good stuff.

  Mark
  ed

  Participant

  July 17, 2006 at 4:54 pm

  Mark is right, not an easy subject to take a photo off.
  I think that it looks great, such good colours on the bug :)
  richiehatch

  Member

  July 18, 2006 at 4:34 pm

  Hi eleven…. That looks very good to me… I agree that flash would help… it would lighten up this side of the fly and probably saturate the colours but it can be tricky to get right… I have taken a few damselflies at a pond local to me… some with and without flash:

  http://www.pbase.com/richiehatch/image/62499993.jpg

  no flash on the image above…20d and sigma 105 macro

  http://www.pbase.com/richiehatch/image/45688771.jpg

  this one has flash i think… 20d and sigma 105 macro again

  Regards

  Richie
  Mark

  Keymaster

  July 18, 2006 at 4:43 pm

  Love that first on richie. Nice shot, did well to catch the bugger :)