Blue Tailed Damselfly

40D, 180/3.5, Benbo 1 + BH1.
ISO200, 1/320 @ f8, Spot metered, Manual exp & focus.
ACR 4 + CS3 resize & sharpen.

Hi,

Blue Tailed Damselfly with the Dorling Kindersly look, pure luck that the light fell right for this one shot, bg is water with white cloud relections that by chance coincided with good light on the damselfly and a break in the strong breeze the south east had today.

All the best

Phil

Nicely done Phil,great lighting and background!!

Cheers

Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk

This is a lovely picture. Everything is perfect to me, even the Damselfly (magnificent animals by the way).

That is good Phil - very envious!

Malcolm

W W Phil - this is different and for me the best damselfly image I have seen. The soft light combined with the BG, detail and DOF are perfect!

David

i like this very much Phil, first thought was how did he get a damselfly in a studio

I thought the same as Jack, the simplicity and detail makes this really stand out. Excellent shot

Very nice shot Phil , excellent comp and detail , top work imo

Andy...

Wow, super shot, Phil.
Perfectly paralleled.
A little Helicon help???
No, just a funny thought

Greetings.
Bertl Menegoni
Innsbruck
Austria

Cracking shot Phil.

None to shabby Phil!

Tony

Hi Phil,
Now I know I have to get a 180 Cracking shot light BG everything is spot on.

Fantastic shot

It's alright I suppose!

Ian




(OK, it's a cracker! )

Best Blue-tail shot in ages Phil - just love the BG

An instant 'cut-out'. Nice one! Love the crisp lines and depth of field here. There is just so much deatil - superb!

Hi Phil,

Great sharpness, DoF and exposure, damselfly is great. I have to go against the trend here and say I don't like the background though. I appreciate it's natural, but it looks artificial, and the image has a 'studio' feel to me, with the damselfly 'out of context'.

Greg

Hi Phil,

Beautiful!

Hi Phil, I initially thought you'd shot this in a studio. Works well.

Very 'clean' looking shot Phil, and certainly very detailed!!

I can see greg's point, as the setting does showcase the creature exclusively {to my eye}, although it does work very nicely

Alan

Hi Phil.I knew it would be good before I opened it,all been said.......excellent

Excellent work Phil.. I really needed my macro today and wished I could have produced a result like this. Very well done.

Brett.

Hello Phil.

Its all been said and I dont mind the background, we need to try different things or we just dont go forward.

Cracking image.

an excellent image Phil. I can see why some might not like the background, but the lighting and compostion are perfect.

Matt

Hi Phil,

Great shot. Well done mate.

Ian Hardy

Excellent great dof