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Common Darter

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Posted by Guy Rogers on July 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Common Darter
Canon 40D, 180mm, F13, 1/60, Tripod, Cable Release.
Posted by PhilH on July 13, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Nice one Guy, the care you put into your images makes it very hard to find fault, in this case I really love the composition and the pastel bg, I just wish the OOF far wing was not there, not in your control I know....

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Posted by Michael John O' Ma on July 13, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Cracker. :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Guy Rogers on July 13, 2008 at 5:03 PM
Hello PhilH.

Thanks for your comment.

I have removed the out of focus wing, hope you find this better.

All the best Guy. :wavey:
Posted by Matt Cole on July 14, 2008 at 2:52 AM
a beautifully elegant shot Guy, very well taken. I must admit I do prefer the cloned version.

Matt
Posted by Robert Lawrence on July 14, 2008 at 3:34 AM
This is a really nice image Guy. I can't recall seeing such a 'painterly' effect on a macro image before. The pastel background really lifts this out of the norm and yet there is still a tremendous amount of detail. Good composition as well.
Robert
Posted by Rob Fisher on July 14, 2008 at 4:24 AM
Guy,

Excellent image. Agree with the Robert, the pastel background really makes this a different image.

Well done,

Rob
Posted by Elliott Neep on July 14, 2008 at 4:58 AM
A beautiful image, Guy. The colours and comp really make for subtly different dragonfly fly profile with bags of interest. I didn't think the oof wing didn't bother me too much, but the cloned out version is better. :toast:
Posted by Paul Inglis on July 14, 2008 at 6:20 AM
Hi Guy,

Faultless image IMO! You've got a very high bar Mr Rogers!
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Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on July 14, 2008 at 6:32 AM
Hi Guy a very nice image, I thought it had a very strong sharpening halo but on closer inspection it is the backlighting.

Phil.

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Posted by Brett Lewis on July 14, 2008 at 7:24 AM
Simply superb work Guy and truly inspiring.

Brett :toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Guy Rogers on July 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM
Hello Phil.

Thank you for your comment.

Yes the bright areas out lining on the image is due to back lighting. The low res image does not help to see this clearly, so I can see were your coming from. :wavey:
Posted by eric weight on July 15, 2008 at 1:10 PM
God that's good.
:toast: Eric
Posted by Magnus Hird on July 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Beautiful Guy, nice simple composition with great detail in the dragonfly :smile: