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Dragonfly in flight, green darner

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted September 27, 20047,352 views22 comments

I took this shot with manual fucus as I could not AF fast enough on these with my camera. They don't stay at the same spot very long. Taken in Vasona park in Los Gatos, California. We now have a hudge amount of dragonflies. I have seen at least 4 species.

This was taken with a Canon 300d
Canon 80-200 F2.8 L
Tamron 2x standard teleconverter.

Model Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL
Flash Used Yes
Focal Length 400mm
Exposure Time 1/1000 sec
Aperture f/8
ISO Equivalent 200
Exposure Bias -2/3

Comments

22 comments

Comment posted by David Gottlieb on September 27, 2004 at 2:48 PM

Sweet shot!!I havent come close to this kind of result.Super job

Registered on November 1, 2003, 436 Posts, 1790 Comments

Comment posted by Scott Hoerner on September 27, 2004 at 2:49 PM

Whoa! Great capture!

Registered on November 17, 2003, 65 Posts, 103 Comments

Comment posted by Randy Harrison on September 27, 2004 at 2:50 PM

Beautiful shot Daniella. Beautiful colors and excellent job stoping so much of the action.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 468 Posts, 3099 Comments

Comment posted by Juan Antonio Guerr on September 27, 2004 at 7:00 PM

Incredible shot! WOW

Regards from Spain

Registered on April 29, 2004, 45 Posts, 36 Comments

Comment posted by George Hall, Jr on September 27, 2004 at 8:00 PM

Very nice capture Danialla. Wonderful job on getting such color and detail while this green was in flight, I have trouble this kind of results when one is sitting still.

Registered on July 11, 2004, 283 Posts, 2395 Comments

Comment posted by Tam Stuart on September 27, 2004 at 8:17 PM

I'm speechless.....

Registered on November 17, 2003, 113 Posts, 1600 Comments

Comment posted by Ed Cordes on September 27, 2004 at 8:27 PM

I'll echo the rest GREAT SHOT! How did you anticipate where the Dragon would be? The colors are terrific.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 451 Posts, 3366 Comments

Comment posted by Kai Hui on September 27, 2004 at 8:42 PM

Daniella,
Glad to see that you post this image here. I will say it again, it is an eccellent capture.

Registered on May 10, 2004, 133 Posts, 574 Comments

Comment posted by Ronnie Gaubert on September 27, 2004 at 10:04 PM

Daniella,

What else can I add but perfect. I've seen allot of shots of this species in flight and this is right up there with the best of them, nice job.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 810 Posts, 3495 Comments

Comment posted by Lee Daniels on September 27, 2004 at 10:27 PM

Super, Daniella! Wonderful capture!!

Registered on December 31, 2003, 115 Posts, 1657 Comments

Comment posted by Terri Norris on September 27, 2004 at 11:08 PM

I'm jealous, Daniella! Fantastic shot!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 395 Posts, 2402 Comments

Comment posted by Herman Blockx on September 28, 2004 at 8:35 AM

super flightshot! really cool!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 238 Posts, 760 Comments

Comment posted by Bruce Sherman on September 28, 2004 at 10:57 AM

Great shot, Daniella. I have tried shooting d'flies in flight, but have nothing anywhere as near as nice as this.

Registered on November 9, 2003, 165 Posts, 1116 Comments

Comment posted by Robert Ganz on September 28, 2004 at 1:12 PM

Just beautiful to see.

Awesome work!!!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 339 Posts, 759 Comments

Comment posted by Juza on September 28, 2004 at 1:58 PM

Daniella,
this is the best dragonfly flight shot that I've ever seen!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 374 Posts, 10466 Comments

Comment posted by Jay Barnes on September 28, 2004 at 7:40 PM

Awesome detail, Daniella. Perfect in every way!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 231 Posts, 1153 Comments

Comment posted by Arnold Berger on September 28, 2004 at 8:34 PM

Terrific Capture!!!

The only question I have --How did you pull this off?
Arnie

Registered on November 1, 2003, 47 Posts, 272 Comments

Comment posted by David Chauvin on September 28, 2004 at 9:17 PM

Daniella,

It's all been said already.

Best Regards,

David

Registered on August 5, 2004, 1007 Posts, 5595 Comments

Comment posted by Daniella T. on September 29, 2004 at 4:54 PM

thanks every one for the comments

To answer a few questions, I did not really anticipate where it would be but I was lucky enough to have one coming my way. It hovered for few seconds, maybe 3 or 4 so that gave me just about enough time to spot it, zoom on it and manualy focus. I only had time to shoot this one frame before it was gone.

I have noticed that they slow down in pace near sunset, so that might help some people if you know this and go a bit later in the afternoon. Maybe it is because the temperature cool down, not sure.

the blue background is the little lake behind. The photo is cropped about 15% maybe.

Registered on January 9, 2004, 41 Posts, 512 Comments

Comment posted by Michael Bates on September 29, 2004 at 11:17 PM

Daniella - this is (simply stated) FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michael

Registered on November 1, 2003, 149 Posts, 2381 Comments

Comment posted by Vito Paratore on October 10, 2004 at 5:44 PM

WHAT?! HOW?!
wow......

fabulous work!
Vito

Registered on September 18, 2004, 42 Posts, 349 Comments

Comment posted by Paul Rycraft on August 4, 2007 at 4:54 PM

Just to echo what everyone else has stated.
Simply fantastic, I'm in awe, just started trying to capture these inflight myself, great work.

Registered on November 30, 2006, 1 Posts, 1 Comments